The National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh (NLFB) organized World Hepatitis Day 2019 in Bangladesh. The theme of the day was “Find the Missing Millions”.
The events were WHD 2019 Seminar, Publication of WHD 2019 Souvenir, a Poster campaign in the social media, Special WHD 2019 A special week-long ` Find the Missing Millions’ Hepatitis Testing Week (July 28 – Aug 3, 2019) at Dhaka.Hon President, Prime Minister & Health Minster gave special messages. President World Hepatitis Alliance sent message to NLFB. NLFB organized a seminar on World Hepatitis Day 2019 in Bangladesh. Hon. Chief Justice of Bangladesh Syed Mahmud Hussain was the chief guest.
Special guest was attorney general of Bangladesh, Mr. Mahbub e Alam, & Prof. Faruque Ahmed, Secretary General, Bangladesh Gastroenterology Society & Director Sheikh Russell Gastroliver Institute & Hospital. Presided by National Professor Brig Abdul Malek, Founder president of National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh. Doctors, medical students, patients & common people attended the seminar.
Chief Justice Mr. Hossain acknowledged the 290 million people across the world who unaware that they are living with viral hepatitis and encouraged people to get tested. NLFB achieved widespread national media and television coverage of their activities, with their program on the Prothom Alo online news portal reaching over 1.6 million people. Other coverage was secured on Bangladesh's national news agency, BSS.
“Find the Missing Millions’ themed Television programs organized by NLFB, broadcasted in the TV Channel ATN Bangla. Prof. Mohammad Ali, Secretary General, National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh, Prof. M Anisur Rahman, Joint Secretary General, National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh, Prof. Salimur Rahman, President, Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Bangladesh & Prof. Dr. Faruk Ahmed participated.
A special week-long ` Find the Missing Millions’ Hepatitis Testing Week (July 28 – Aug 3, 2019) conducted at 15 centers of Dhaka city. The program offered low-cost hepatitis B and C testing. 30 NOhep activists participated and distributed 25,000 `Find the Missing Millions’ leaflets. Under this program, 3120 people got the opportunity to test.