In a major bid to revolutionize the country’s public healthcare infrastructure, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has announced a monumental employment drive to recruit 25,000 professional midwives and 100,000 grassroots healthcare workers. The premier made this historic declaration on Saturday (July 11) while addressing the 81st anniversary celebrations of Dhaka Medical College (DMC) Hospital as the chief guest. The expansive labor mobilization is projected to significantly lower maternal mortality rates and reinforce primary medical accessibility across rural constituencies in Bangladesh.
Addressing the convocation of medical professionals, Prime Minister Rahman emphasized that the 25,000 newly recruited midwives will be strategically deployed to incentivize and manage natural child delivery processes at the community level, reducing unnecessary surgical interventions. Furthermore, the induction of 100,000 specialized healthcare fieldworkers aims to operationalize the government’s visionary ‘healthcare at the doorstep’ doctrine. This workforce escalation is viewed by policy analysts as a double-edged triumph, mitigating rural unemployment while structurally upgrading the national medical delivery matrix.
Simultaneously detailing the government’s infrastructural master plan, the Prime Minister revealed that regional 51-bed hospitals at both district and sub-district (Upazila) levels will be phased upward into comprehensive 100-bed medical centers. To systematically decentralize the country’s medical ecosystem and reduce the staggering over-saturation of capital-centric institutions like DMCH, the premier issued a directive to senior specialists. He emphasized that expert physicians must actively serve in rural hospitals, ensuring that marginalized populations do not have to endure critical travel to Dhaka for baseline clinical consultations.
The premier’s morning arrival at the historic Dhaka Medical College campus was greeted with festive jubilation by institutional staff, current students, and senior healthcare administrators. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman was accompanied at the plenary assembly by his spouse, Dr. Zubaida Rahman, a distinguished alumna of Dhaka Medical College. The high-profile event underscored the administration’s policy trajectory to fuse institutional legacy with aggressive modernizations, setting a fast-tracked precedent for Bangladesh’s sovereign health security and decentralized social infrastructure.
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