Bangladesh
Covid Vaccination Bangladesh is now a role model in the world in tackling COVID-19
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, March 11: Bangladesh has become a role model in the world in dealing with corona pandemic.
This was stated by Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque at a discussion organized by the National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology on the occasion of World Kidney Day-2022 at the National Kidney Institute in the capital on Thursday afternoon.
He said that Bloomberg has raised Bangladesh to the 8th position in the fight against corona for administering 22 crore vaccine doses in a short time with jabbing more than one crore doses in a single day and preventing the spread of coronavirus in the country.
Zahid Maleque said that amid the corona situation, when the economic condition of many countries of the world is terrible, the economic prosperity of Bangladesh is turning around again. GDP has been 6 plus. People are now able to focus on business again. For this the health sector had to work round the clock.
"We have administered 1 crore 20 lakh doses of vaccine in a single day, which is a record. We have so far been able to administer about 22 crore doses. Of these, I have been able to give 12 crore first doses, eight crore second doses and 50 lakh booster doses," he said.
He said that millions of people are working in this vaccination programme. The government has spent around Rs 40,000 crore on all the vaccine purchase and vaccination activities. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has brought all the people of the country under vaccination without thinking of such a huge amount of money, and because of this the countrymen are now much relieved and people are able to go back to work spontaneously.
Inforimg that more people will be brought under booster doses soon, the health minister said, "The booster dose campaign will be held in a large-scale like we organized mass vaccination programme recently. This will make the country more safe."
