Dhaka, May 25 -- Bangladesh Physiotherapy Association(BPA), the national organisation of physiotherapy professionals in Bangladesh demanded inclusion of Physiotherapy in the Health Reform Commission and recruitment of physiotherapy doctors in 9th grade positions, says a press release on Sunday.

The demand was made at a seminar titled "Physiotherapy in Public Health Protection: Review of the Health Reform Commission Report" held on Saturday at the Abdus Salam Hall of the National Press Club in Dhaka.

Addressing the programme, Professor Dr. Mohammad Sohrab Hossain, Executive Director of the Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP), stated that the academic merit with which physiotherapists study and attain higher degrees-along...