DHAKA, July 18, 2022 (BSS) - The Sector Commanders Forum-Muktijudda 71 has 
demanded to give priority-based medical services to valiant Freedom Fighters 
and preserve the abandoned weapons of the great Liberation War in the upazila 
Muktijoddha complexes.

A delegation led by the forum's Secretary General Harun Habib made the 
demands today at a view-exchange meeting with Liberation War Affairs Minister 
AKM Mozammel Haque in his office. 

The Vice President of the forum and also cultural personality Bir Muktijoddha 
M Hamid and Joint Secretary General Bir Muktijoddha Professor Abul Kalam Azad 
Patwari were also present.

While speaking at the meeting, they said as the Freedom Fighters are old and 
sick, there is an urgent need for government directives to ensure that they 
can be admitted to all government and private hospitals on a priority basis 
and get full medical care with cabin facilities.

In many cases, the Freedom Fighters are being harassed and neglected by the 
local authorities, they added.
 
The minister has assured the leaders of taking necessary measures to ensure 
priority basis medical service for Freedom Fighters and preserve the 
abandoned weapons of the great Liberation War.

The weapons of the great War of Liberation are the wealth of the nation's 
history, so it is necessary to preserve and display those arms on an urgent 
basis, the minister said, adding, "if necessary, initiatives will be taken to 
preserve the memorials of the Liberation War in the Muktijoddha complexes."