Unicef aid to continue: ED
Visiting Unicef Executive Director Anthony Lake has assured that the aid flow for the development of mothers' and children's health and reducing their mortality rate will continue.
The assurance came during the Unicef boss' meeting with Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque at his secretariat office yesterday.
Melinda Gates, Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), who is also visiting Bangladesh, accompanied Lake and attended the meeting.
Praising Bangladesh's achievement in substantially reducing the mortality rate of both the mother and the child, one of the main targets of the Millennium Development Goal that the UN set to be achieved in the next few years, Lake said Unicef's assistance to materialise the goal will continue.
Both Lake and Melinda Gates laid emphasis on strengthening the nutrition project which is run under Unicef assistance and is aimed at qualitative improvement of children's health.
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