BRAC gave over its 430-room learning centre arranged in Ashkona to the government on Thursday (16 April) to utilize it as an isolated quarantine facility for the foreign returnee.
Likewise, under a partnership with the government in a pilot plan, BRAC has begun gathering COVID-19 related community-level information at the union level in Bangladesh
BRAC is further set to begin kiosk-based COVID-19 testing individually at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka and Narayanganj on a pilot basis.
Asif Saleh, Executive Director, BRAC, said all returnees from abroad should stay in quarantine for 14 days for public safety and safety of their family members, which they will be able to do with relative ease if there are suitable quarantine facilities adjacent to Dhaka.
“This idea and commitment to the society have led BRAC to hand its relatively large learning centre at Ashkona to the government,” he said.
BRAC executive director urged individuals and organizations with means to join its fundraising initiative so that support can be reached to more people living in ultra-poverty and urban slums.
