Staff Reporter :
Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday warned that the coronavirus transmission might not be eliminated within months, rather it would stay two or three more years in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world.
“The Covid-19 will not go away within two to three months from our country, rather it is likely to stay two to three years more,” said Professor Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
“Even in case of decreasing the infection rates, the disease will take almost two to three years or even more to come under control,” the DG of the DGHS said quoting public health experts while talking to journalists during the daily health bulletin on Covid-19 on Thursday.
The DG said that he was also infected of coronavirus and joined work after recovering a few days ago.
“It is mandatory for all the people to follow the health guidelines and advices as long as the risk persists,” the DGHS official said.
Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad said also that the public health experts across the world are thinking that the contamination of the virus may not continue with the same speed, but to be lower in Bangladesh and the other countries, although the spread may not be controlled fully before two or three years.
The DG of the DGHS revealed some plans and measures which his office has taken so far.
He said that the health ministry has appointed two thousand physicians and five thousand nurses to increase capability of the government to combat the virus.
He said that the government has a plan to extend Covid-19 test facilities and to install more ICU units in the zila hospitals.
The DG also vowed to provide more PPEs to health workers including doctors.
He said also that high flow nasal cannula and oxygen concentrator will be provided soon to hospitals.
