Health and Family Welfare Minister of Bangladesh Mr. Zahid Maleque today stated there are 20,000 isolation beds in the country and 4,500 more isolation beds have been prepared for expanding health support facilities for COVID-19 victims.
“The government has intensified its efforts for collecting quality logistics medical materials, setting up medical infrastructures and increasing healthcare facilities to fight the pandemic,” he told journalists after visiting a 2000-bed isolation center at the Bashundhdhra Convention Centre in Kuril.
The health minister said isolation centers with 4500 beds in the city have nearly been prepared and these centers will be handed over to the government within one week, reports BSS.
Among the newly prepared isolation centers, he said, 2000 beds have been prepared at the Bashundhdhra Convention Centre, 1300 beds at DNCC market and 1200 beds at four buildings at Diabari in the city’s Uttara area.
Referring to different measures taken by the government to fight the COVID-19, Maleque said, “We have already initiated the process of appointing 2000 more physicians and 6000 nurses to provide healthcare services to the coronavirus infected patients.”
There is a total of 10,394 oxygen cylinders at all dedicated COVID-19 hospitals and isolation units. There are 13,745 oxygen cylinders in hospitals at eight divisions, while specialized and many medical college hospitals also have sufficient stock of the cylinders. A process is underway for procuring of 3,050 oxygen cylinders.
