The World Health Day-2016 was observed in Khulna as elsewhere in the country yesterday with slogan of ensuring good health for all. The World Health Day is celebrated on April 7 every year to mark the anniversary of the founding of World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948. The theme of the day this year is ‘Make health choice every day, keep diabetes at bay’ and the goal is to scale up prevention, strengthen  care, and enhance surveillance. To mark the day, Civil Surgeon Office, Khulna district and Health service provider related different NGOs jointly brought out procession from Shaheed Hadis Park which paraded the main city streets and concluded in front of School Health Clinic, Khulna. A number of government and non-government officers, NGO personalities, civil society leaders, educationists, journalists took part in it with placards to raise awareness about sound body and the impact it continues to have, both globally and locally. Meanwhile, they arranged a discussion at the conference room of the School Health Clinic, Khulna under Sadar police station in the city. Assistant director of Department of Health, Khulna division Dr Md Abdul Naser attended the discussion as chief guest.