Govt to build six 100-bed hospitals for workers: PM

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Monday told Parliament that the government would establish six dedicated 100-bed hospitals in major industrial areas to ensure proper healthcare services for workers.

“To ensure proper medical care for workers and the working class, the government has planned to construct six hospitals, each with a capacity of 100 beds,” he said, adding that the hospitals will initially be established in Dhaka’s Savar and Ashulia, Gazipur’s Tongi and Kaliakair, Narayanganj and Chattogram.

The hospitals would be dedicated exclusively to workers, the Prime Minister said while replying to a lawmaker’s question in Parliament. “The hospitals will be named and developed specifically as healthcare facilities for workers.”

Earlier, raising the issue on a point of order, BNP lawmaker Shamsur Rahman Simul Biswas urged the Prime Minister to inform the House whether the government had any specific plan to establish hospitals in labour-intensive areas to ensure healthcare services for workers and their families.

He said they had heard from the labour minister about the Prime Minister’s interest in ensuring healthcare services for low-income productive citizens, particularly working people.�"UNB