Staff Correspondent
Published:26 Jan 2023, 05:58 AM
4-day Turkish food fair and free health camp starts in Lakshmipur’s Ramganj
News Desk: A four-day Turkish food fair and free healthcare camp has started
in Lakshmipur’s Ramganj. SMART Foundation, a public welfare organization of
Smart Technologies (BD) Ltd., the official distributor of Japanese
world-renowned brand Sony in Bangladesh and the country’s leading company in
the electronics and information technology sector, and the International
Fraternity Association of Turkey (IFA) have jointly organized this event at the
premises of Smart Academy located in Norimpur of Ramganj Upazila. This Turkish
food fair and free healthcare camp which started on January 26 will continue
till January 29.
Turkish Food Fair has a rich
collection of delicious Turkish food including Turkey’s famous Turkish Pizza,
Burger, Biryani, Coffee, Tauk Doner, Tauk Izgara, Tather, Baklava, Lukom, and
other Turkish food packages. At the free healthcare camp, 10 renowned doctors
from Hisar Intercontinental Hospital of Turkey are present for providing free
circumcision (Sunnat-E-Khatna) services to 1,600 pre-registered boys using
modern technology in a bloodless and pain-free manner.
This four-day Turkish food
fair and free health camp will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm everyday. The
program was inaugurated on Thursday (January 26) at 11:00 am by releasing
pigeons, the symbol of peace. Ramganj municipality mayor Bir Muktijoddha Abul
Khair Patwari was presented as the Chief Guest at the event, while Smart
Foundation Managing Director Mohammad Zahirul Islam was on the chair at the
opening ceremony.
Ramganj Municipality Mayor
Bir Muktijodha Abul Khair Patwari in his speech as the Chief Guest said, “Smart
Technologies has created a unique example today by delivering free modern
healthcare to remote areas. Providing free healthcare to 1,600 people together
is undoubtedly a commendable initiative. Besides, by organizing the
world-famous Turkish Food Fair in the rural environment, the people here have
been given an opportunity to get acquainted with the global culture.”
He also said, “The Smart
Technologies (BD) Ltd. has been playing an important role in realizing the
dream of the Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Government of the
People's Republic of Bangladesh in building Digital Bangladesh. They are not
limiting themselves only to business activities but also doing various works
for public welfare. Today they organized free healthcare and foreign food fairs
in remote areas under Corporate Social Responsibility through their public
interest organization Smart Foundation. I sincerely thank them for that.”
Managing Director of Smart
Foundation Mohammad Zahirul Islam said, “For the second time in a row, we are
providing free circumcision services in remote areas by organizing health
camps. We hope that we will be able to provide this facility regularly in the
future. Also, if other capable individuals or organizations of the country like
us all participate in public interest activities from their positions, then it
will be possible to build a smart Bangladesh very easily.”