Live Correspondent: Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Saturday said it will be possible to get rid of coronavirus very soon if the government and private hospitals work together.“Everyone should have a contribution to preventing coronavirus. If the government and private hospitals work together, we’ll be able to bid goodbye to coronavirus from the country very soon,” he said.

The minister was inaugurating Gulshan branch of Zainul Haque Sikder Women's Medical College dedicated for treating coronavirus patients through videoconferencing from his residence. Apart from government hospitals, private hospitals have been playing an important role in preventing coronavirus in the country, he said.

He also said Zainul Haque Sikder Women's Medical College is a modern hospital with 50 beds, including 21 intensive care and chest pain units. The people of this area will get coronavirus testing facilities at the hospital as it has Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing facilities, he added.

Parveen Haque Sikder, MP, director of Sikder Group, presided over the inaugural programme where Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services Parveen Haque Sikder and other officials were present.

Earlier in the day, the health minister attended a bilateral discussion with Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming and urged him to provide vaccines to Bangladesh on priority basis if China invents it. Bangladesh has so far reported 108,775 coronavirus cases and 1,425 deaths.

Dhaka, June-20 (campuslive24.com)//bsc