Staff Reporter :
Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury on Saturday alleged that the country’s common people were not getting treatment.
‘Getting treatment is now difficult. Only affluent people, corrupt and looters are getting this, not the common people,’ he said while addressing a ceremony of receiving a cheque for Tk 50 lakh hosted by GK at Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.
Retired college teacher Nasreen Begum and Mustafa M Kamal couple of capital’s Paribagh donated the money for the cause of common people in memory of their eldest daughter Sabrina Kamal
who died of COVID-19 on May 19, 2020 at the age of 39 in Germany where she had been studying her PhD course.
The money will be spent for instituting a 5-bed intensive care unit at Gonoshasthaya Samajbhittik Medical College Hospital’s dialysis centre at Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
Zafrullah said that many people of the country went abroad for treatment and their bodies returned to the country after spending crore of Taka as the treatment that ought to happen in the country was not happening.
‘The country has not a single ICU having all the facilities like that of America and England,’ he said and added that the ICUs in Bangladesh had partial facilities instead of complete facilities.
He said that this situation occurred as the government was not democratic and not accountable to the people.
The government is now hindering the country’s science and encouraging imports for the interest of businessmen, he said.
He said that COVID-19 antibody test was needed for giving vaccine and mentioned that although his institution developed COVID-19 antibody test kits about a year ago, they did not get any approval.
‘Many countries developed the kits later and now exporting to Bangladesh,’ he said.
Donor Nasreen Begum, Gonoshasthaya Kendra chief executive officer Monjur Kader Ahmed, press adviser Jahangir Alalm Mintu and Gonoshasthaya Samajbhittik Medical College vice-principal Mohib Ullah Khondoker also spoke.
