Staff Reporter :
A legal notice had been sent on Wednesday to the health secretary and the finance secretary requesting them to take necessary steps in five days to set up Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) laboratories in every district of the country in order to quickly complete Covid-19 tests.
Advocate Moniruzzaman Lincoln, a Supreme Court lawyer, served the legal notice through emails saying that he would take appropriate legal action if the measures are not taken in five days to set up PCR laboratories in all districts of the country.
In the legal notice, he said, the number of coronavirus patients in the country is reportedly increasing day by day.
A patient has to wait for 7 to 10 days to get test results due to shortage of PCR laboratories and during this period there is possibility of transmission, he said in the legal notice.
The lawyer also said if the PCR laboratories were established in every district, Covid-19 tests would have been completed early and the patients could know their status quickly and therefore the treatment would take place smoothly.
Advocate Moniruzzaman said that he would move a writ petition before the High Court seeking necessary directives on the authorities concerned of the government if they don’t set up PCR laboratories in every district.
