The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has handed over four new ambulances and a COVID-19 sample collection van to Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to help transfer patients to hospitals and support COVID-19 sample collection and testing.
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Chairman Hafiz Ahmed Mazumdar, MP, received the vehicles on behalf of the society on Monday.
With this, Bangladesh Red Crescent’s ambulance service will be strengthened in providing emergency service to vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a press release.
Two of these ambulances are with ICU facilities while two others are specially equipped for COVID-19 patients. The IFRC will hand over another blood collection van to Bangladesh Red Crescent in the coming week to support their blood collection drive, it said.
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Vice Chairman Prof Dr Habibe Millat, MP, Secretary-General Feroz Salah Uddin, Deputy Secretary-General Rafiqul Islam, acting head of IFRC Bangladesh Country Office Sanjeev Kumar Kafley, and IFRC COVID-19 operations Manager Ali Akgul were present at the programme.