Kuwait-bound BD men face suffering for medical certificates

IEDCR to examine health from Saturday

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Reza Mahmud :
Bangladeshi expatriates, scheduled to fly to Kuwait immediately, are suffering severely to collect health certificates, including coronavirus free clearance, as per that country’s requirement.
At last the Ministry of Health Affairs finally decided on Thursday evening to give the expatriates coronavirus free certificates as per proper examination from Saturday (March 7). Sources said, Kuwait has imposed travel restriction of people from 10 countries, including Bangladesh, in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus.
Earlier, on March 3, Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authority in a statement said that travellers have to submit certificates issued by the Kuwait embassy in the country saying they are coronavirus free.
As per the direction, approximately 100 Kuwait bound expatriates rushed to the Kuwait embassy. But the embassy officials suggested them to go to the Bangladesh’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) to collect the certificate.
As they rushed to the IEDCR office at Mohakhali around 11:00am, its officials said they are not responsible for issuing such clearance certificates. In this situation, the expatriates fell in deep disappointment.
“I feel very helpless as failed to find any right door where can go for the solution,” said Abdullah, who are living in Kuwait for the last 3 years. He came home in a vacation.
A good number of expatriates like Abdullah have faced such sufferings the whole day yesterday.
Contacted in the afternoon, IEDCR Director Professor Meerjady Sabrina Flora said, “We are in a meeting to discuss the matter.”
Finally, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) decided in a meeting in the evening to start health check-up for Kuwait bound people from Saturday.
Professor Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), who chaired the meeting, confirmed this to journalists.

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