Nay Pyi Taw – Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint called for stepping up efforts for reproductive health tasks to meet the UN’s millennium development goals at the Advocacy Meeting on Reproductive Health for Key Stakeholders on 18 July at the Health Department here.

The meeting was jointly organized by Ministry of Health and World Health Organization (WHO).

At the meeting, the minister also urged NGOs to cooperate in implementing the tasks to reduce the infant and child mortality rate and death rate in labour in Myanmar. He also stressed the need to disseminate general knowledge on reproductive health to the public.

The meeting was also participated by Deputy Ministers for Health Dr Mya Oo and Dr Paing Soe, professors of the medical institutes, obstetric and gynecologists, pediatrics and representatives of Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association (Central).