Bangladesh Academy of Dermatology conducted a health campaign at the Jamia Jannatul Banat Madrassah Darul Furkan at West Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Tuesday.聽
As a part of the initiative, 30 skin specialists, including president of the BAD, Professor Dr M Shahidullah Sikder, and general secretary, associate professor Dr Mohammed Saiful Islam Bhuiyan, gave consultation, distributed medicines and provided health education among 600 students.
The campaign was conducted with the support of Dermlink Grant 2024 awarded by the International League of Dermatological Societies and The International Foundation for Dermatology.
Saiful Islam Bhuiyan said that they had decided to conduct the campaign at a madrassah cconsidering the public health issues of highly contagious skin disease scabies.
鈥楾his easy-to-treat and preventable disease has many serious complications especially among children,鈥� he added.
It spreads among persons living closely in family, school, madrassah, orphanage, day-care centre, hospital or prison after close person-to-person contact of a short period of time. 鈥業t is now prevailing an epidemic-like situation in the country. So, people need to be aware about the disease,鈥� mentioned Saiful Bhuiyan.聽