'Pure drinking water a must for sound health'

"Pure drinking water protects mothers and children from various diseases and provide nutritional support for good health," he said while speaking at a discussion as the chief guest at Agargaon Taltala Halim Foundation Model High School.

The discussion on "Water for life: Health scenario of people of Bangladesh" was jointly organised by the Nahar Health Service and the Social Welfare Association and Healthy Cities Programme of the World Health Organisation (Who) in observance of the World Health Day.

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Barrister Shah Newaj Akhnad, Dr Elias Sami, Dr Japabrata Chowdhury, Prof Rashida Mannan and Engineer Khuda Bux also spoke.

Dr Tapan Kumar Nath and Ruhul Islam Tipu presented the keynote paper on the subject.