Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Saber Hossain Chowdhury announced that the health dimension would be incorporated into one of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) strategies to address environment-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as dengue, chikungunya, malaria and others.
The minister highlighted the nexus between health and climate change.
He said this in his speech as the chief guest in NIHR Global Health Research Centres Symposium organized by icddr,b on Non-Communicable Diseases and Environmental Change held at the Westin, Dhaka on Monday evening.
