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The Health Services Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a notification on Thursday appointing Mohammad Mujibur Rahman as director general (acting) of the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC).
Before taking up the new post, he was serving as director (acting) of the Institute of Child and Mother Health (ICMH) at Matuail in Dhaka and as professor (current charge) of its neonatology department.
According to the notification, he has been made an officer on special duty (OSD) at the Directorate General of Health Services and attached to the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council as its director general (acting). He has been instructed to join his new workplace by 18 October.
Established on 23 April 1975, the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council is the country’s highest coordinating body on nutrition under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The prime minister is its chairperson, while the health and family welfare minister chairs its executive committee. Its main responsibilities are to assist in formulating and updating the national food and nutrition policy, to coordinate the nutrition activities of various ministries and agencies, to monitor and evaluate progress in implementing the national nutrition action plan, and to support nutrition research and public awareness work.
