WaterAid Bangladesh organised an event to disseminating the findings of a study titled ‘Impacts of WASH on AMR and strategies to control AMR through WASH Interventions’ at a city hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday.
The event brought together the senior representatives of the government, non-governmental bodies, development partners, donor agencies, media and civil society, all working at the intersection of the One Health approach and AMR, to hear the result of a groundbreaking piece of research by WaterAid and to launch a series of awareness-raising videos to tackle AMR through improved WASH practice, said a press release.
Professor Md Sayedur Rahman, special assistant to the chief adviser for health and family welfare ministry, was the chief guest at the event while Hasin Jahan, country director, WaterAid Bangladesh, was in the chair.
The event offered a forum for multi-sectoral dialogue of the underlying linkages between WASH and AMR and the need for mainstreaming WASH in Bangladesh’s national AMR response.
Special guests in attendance included Rajesh Narwal, acting representative, World Health Organization Bangladesh, Professor Tahmina Shirin, director at Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research, Md Khairul Islam, regional director – South Asia, WaterAid, and Md Mostafizur Rahman, senior programme office - climate and environment, embassy of Sweden.
