Govt is preparing district hospitals to tackle Covid’s 2nd wave: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is getting all the district hospitals ready with ICUs and oxygen supplies to provide healthcare services to people in the case of Covid-19 pandemic in the upcoming winter.

“The outbreak of Coronavirus began last winter. It may resurge in the upcoming winter. Keeping it in mind, we’re arranging all sorts of medical services, including setting up of ICUs and ensuring oxygen in every district hospital,” she said.

The Prime Minister said this on Thursday while formally opening the spectacular Itna-Mithamoin-Austagram all-weather road in Kishoreganj to traffic using the digital platform.

She inaugurated the 29.73–km beautiful road through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban in the capital.

Sheikh Hasina said the government instantly recruited some 2,000 doctors, 3000 nurses and a good number of health technicians following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fatalities from Covid-19 have been showing an upward trajectory in the country since Saturday, while the number of new cases showing no sign to recede.

Thirty five more people died from the infectious disease within 24-hour period until Wednesday morning, which gradually increased from 20 on Saturday, 23 on Sunday, 27 on Monday, and 30 on Tuesday.

Bangladesh is one of the top 20 countries in terms of total cases across the globe that has been suffering badly from the virus outbreak.

According to information portal Worldometer, Bangladesh is the fourth worst-affected nation in Asia and 16th in the globe.

Bangladesh is following India, Iran and Iraq in the list of Asian nations, who cumulatively reported 11.31 million cases.