177 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র The Health Department is also responsible for collection of medicines and other equipments as donations from various friendly agencies and dispatching them to the sectors on the basis of requisitions received. The Health Department has also been entrusted with the duty of procuring equipments, ambulance etc. for the sectors in case of their non-availability from friendly sources. 7. Ministry of Information & Broadcasting: The Bangladesh Radio is one of the earliest organizations under the Government. Initially, the radio was installed under the direct supervision of Mr. Abdul Mannan, MNA. The staff for programming and broadcasting were selected from amongst the former Radio Pakistan who came over to us. Gradually, more and more artists and technicians have joined us resulting in improvement of the radio's out-put. By now almost 100 persons have been recruited for Bangladesh Radio. Because of the presence of a large number of heterogeneous elements, it has been extremely difficult to regularise the services of all the Bangladesh Radio personnel according to a definite standard. Since Radio is our most important information media and comes only second to our war-efforts in order of priority, Government have always sanctioned necessary financial backing for it. The other agencies organized under the Information and Broadcasting Ministry
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(a) Director of Films; (b) Director of Publication; and, (c) Director of Arts and Designs. As discussed above the Psychological Warfare Cell of the Ministry of Defence works in close collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The External Publicity of the Government is at present located within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This wing has brought out a large number of publications in the form of book-lets, pamphlets, brochures etc. These have played a very significant role in our foreign publicity. A few eminent Bangladesh intellectuals have also published books and book-lets covering a wide range of subject’s profecting the Bangladesh cause and our struggle for freedom. Recently a series of meeting were held with the Heads of Information agencies under the friendly Government in order to further strengthen our publicity effort on all fronts. All necessary assistance has been promised and is forthcoming. This Ministry has suffered from the beginning in the absence of an experienced person with necessary expertise who could be appointed as Secretary. After waiting for a long time Government have very recently appointed Mr. Anwarul Haque Khan on a purely temporary basis to look after this department. He will work in close cooperation with Mr. A. Mannan, MNA.
