Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh government formed a 17-member ‘national technical advisory committee’ to find ways to improve the coronavirus health services to contain the spread of the virus which created huge threat in the country.
The committee headed by Mohammad Shahidullah, a Neonatologist, a notice issued by the Directorate of Health Services, announced the panel on Saturday.
Professor Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR)`has been made the Secretary of the committee.
Professor Nazrul Islam of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and Professor AK Azad Khan of Bangladesh Diabetes Association are part of the national committee.
The panel is designed to provide suggestions to the government about the prevention of novel coronavirus and upturn the quality of health services in hospitals across the country.
The committee formed 42 days after the country reported its first cases of coronavirus infection on March 8.
According to sources, the national committee will also advise the government on how to increase the capacity of doctors providing services during the epidemic.
It also will suggest the government about the initiatives needed to motivate them. The committee also have been given directives to suggest about the research related to vaccines on coronavirus.
The panel can exchange their views with the public health expert committee which had been formed by the government on March 28.
If needed the panel may take new members.
