‘Ubaidul’, an employee of a firm at Banani, said doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital had sent him to Kurmitola General Hospital for coronavirus test. The Kurmitola hospital forwarded him to the government’s disease control agency, the lone facility with the capacity to conduct the coronavirus test in Bangladesh. She then took her mother to the Kurmitola hospital that forwarded them to the IEDCR. “Maybe the doctors refuse to treat these patients out of the fear that they would catch the coronavirus,” she said. The Suhrawardy hospital has launched an over-the-counter system to prescribe medications to patients with flu-like symptoms to avoid the risk of contacting the coronavirus.

Source: bd News24 March 18, 2020 22:52 UTC