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Article: Essential drugs and health for all: healthy innovations from Bangladesh. (Interview).
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- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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An Interview with Zafrullah Chowdhury
Dr. ZAFRULLAH CHOWDHURY is regarded as the father of Bangladesh's National Drug Policy, which pioneered an affordable health strategy based in part on the local manufacture of a relatively small number of essential drugs. He is a founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, a Bangladesh people's health center that trains health workers, especially women, to provide care in rural Bangladesh, and also includes a university, a hospital and a generic drug manufacturing factory.
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