Staff Reporter:
The Chinese government yesterday provided necessary medical equipment and dengue test kits to Bang-ladesh to supplement the efforts of the government for combating dengue outbreak in the country.
Ambassador of China in Bangladesh handed over a portion of medical equipment and MSR to Health Minister Zahid Maleque at the dengue consignment handing over ceremony at the health ministry here, an official release said.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque, Health Services Division Secretary Md Jahangir Alam, Directorate General of Health Services Director General Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammed Khurshid Alam and high officials of the Health Services Division were present in the ceremony from the Bangladesh side.
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Bangladesh Yao Wen and relevant officials of the Em-bassy of China in Dhaka were present in the ceremony from China’s side.
On the occasion, the Chinese ambassador said, “Bangladesh has suffered the severest dengue epidemic in history, which has infected millions of people and caused the loss of more than 1,400 lives. The epidem-ic is still going on and the situation remains challenging.”
Upon the request, the Chinese embassy agreed to provide the following medical equipment and Dengue Test Kits: Apheresis Machine-15 Nos, Refrigerated Centrifuge Machine (blood Bag Centrifuge)-15 Nos, Automated Hematology Analyzer (Cell Counter)-15 Nos, Plateletpheresis Kit-2,000 pcs, Triple Blood
Bag-5,000 Pcs and NS1 antigen kit-10 lakh Pcs.
In the handover ceremony, the Chinese ambassador handed over a portion of the above mentioned medi-cal equipment and MSR to the minister as grant support.
The remaining portion of the equipment is underway from China to Bangladesh.
