PPRC Covid-19 Surveys: Health Realities of Rickshaw Pullers and Other Urban Poor

UHC Day Policy Research Webinar
PPRC Covid-19 Surveys:
Health Realities of Rickshaw Pullers and Other Urban Poor
With support from UNICEF, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) has carried out a research study on the healthcare realities of various categories of urban poor, in particular a large-scale survey of rickshaw-pullers who constitute a ubiquitous group of the urban poor, during September-December, 2020. This research together with companion research that PPRC has carried out on urban primary health care issues has brought forth a compelling urban primary health care agenda as a post-pandemic UHC priority.
Chief Guest: Dr. Shamsul Alam, Senior Secretary and Member, GED, Planning Commission
Guest of Honor: Mr Tomoo Hozumi, Representative, UNICEF Bangladesh
Session Chair/Host: Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman, Executive Chairman, PPRC
Brief welcome by:
A.M.M. Nasiruddin, Senior Fellow, PPRC & Former Health Secretary
Maya Vandenent, Chief of Health, UNICEF Bangladesh
Presentation 1: Healthcare realities of the urban poor: Key findings of rickshaw-puller survey
Hossain Zillur Rahman, Executive Chairman, PPRC
Presentation 2: Qualitative findings on healthcare realities of other urban poor categories - truck-drivers, municipal cleaners, sex-workers, gypsies
Philip Gain, Executive Director, Society for Environment and Human Development
Presentation 3: Financing challenges for UHC
Rob Yates, Executive Director, Centre for Universal Health, Chatham House, London Panel discussion
Panelists:
Dr. Md. Shahadat Hossain Mahmud, Director-General, Health Economics Unit, MoHFW
Professor Abul Faiz, Former Director-General of Health Services & Member, Healthy Bangladesh
Md. Abdul Hakim Majumder, Project Director (Additional Secretary), UPHCSDP, LGD
Professor Tahmina Banu, Director, Chittagong Research Institute for Child Surgery
Professor Syed A. Hamid, Institute of Health Economics, Dhaka University
Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Convener, Bangladesh Health Watch