The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has cancelled leave all of its officials due to ongoing flood and outbreak of dengue.
“According to the decision of a meeting that took place on Monday afternoon, the leave of all the officials of Health and Family Welfare Ministry has been cancelled due to flood and dengue,” said a press release signed by information officer of the ministry Maidul Islam Prodhan, reports BSS.
Besides, a monitoring cell has been formed at the office of Health Minister Zahid Maleque aiming to monitor dengue outbreak situation and ministry activities regarding this round the clock.
The monitoring cell will take action if any hospital does not comply with the government directives regarding the price of dengue test, said the release.
People, facing any irregularities over Dengue, can call hotline numbers: 01314-766069/01314-766070, 02-47120556/02-47120557 or e-mail: ministermonitoringcell@gmail.com.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet Division has urged the government officials not to leave the capital during the Eid vacation considering the current situation.
Following a review meeting on prevention of dengue, tackling the flood situation and resisting rumours at the Cabinet Division room in Dhaka on Tuesday, Cabinet Division Secretary (coordination and reform) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman disclosed the decision to the journalists.
The government is discouraging the government employees not to celebrate the Eid festival outside their workstations, said the official, adding that the government officials and employees have been asked to keep clean their respective residences and workplaces to check the breeding of the Aedes mosquito which is responsible for dengue fever.
Referring to the Eid holiday cancellation of the Health Department officials and employees, Mujibur Rahman said the physicians, who are taking training, have been asked to join their respective healthcare centers quitting their training in view of the crisis physicians required for dengue treatment.