<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government has reduced the child and maternal mortality rate along with poverty rate in the country through various pragmatic steps.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have established community clinics across the country to mitigate the primary medicare facilities of the people. As a result the child and maternal mortality rate has been reduced,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said this while the management team of Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialised Hospital &amp; Nursing College called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President &amp; Managing Director of KPJ Healthcare Berhad Chin Keat Chyuan led the team.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PM’s speech writer M Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after the call on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said that the Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialised Hospital&nbsp; was established at the industrial belt so that the workers and people of the area could get the medicare facilities easily.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said that the hospital is run under the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"My sister Sheikh Rehana and I donated all our properties to the Trust for the sake of people’s interest. We have no one and we have donated our properties for the welfare of the people,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She recalled that once upon a time people of Bangladesh were poor and deprived from the healthcare facilities and could not afford two meals a day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have been able to reduce the poverty rate,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialised Hospital &amp; Nursing College was established by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 250-bed hospital is operated by KPJ Healthcare Berhad, a renowned Malaysian Private Healthcare organization. KPJ Healthcare Berhad currently has a chain of 29 hospitals in Malaysia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Named after Bangabandhu’s wife Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, the 250-bed world class hospital has been serving people since its inception in 2013.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Established at Kashimpur union under Kaliakair upazila in Gazipur by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust,&nbsp; the state-of-the-art facility is being operated by Kumpulan Perubetan&nbsp; Johor (KPJ) Healthcare Berhad, a renowned Malaysian private healthcare&nbsp; organisation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The facility has become the first integrated management system (IMS) certified Hospital &amp; Nursing College in Bangladesh, providing patients with more confidence in healthcare. Bureau Veritas, an international certification agency, awarded it for its contributions to Bangladesh’s health sector in&nbsp; 2017. - UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>