Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said that Nipah virus has so far taken 5 lives and infected 8 people in Bangladesh during this winter. He has called upon all to be careful while drinking date palm juice.
According to icddr,b research, the virus can be transmitted from animals to humans, through foods contaminated by animals and from humans to humans. Fruit bats, which infect date juice in winter, are the natural host of the virus, which is currently one of the deadly emerging pathogens. The Health Minister was addressing a discussion in his ministry's conference room on Sunday to fix categories of the country's private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centers.
He kept saying people have to face difficulties for treatments in private hospitals and tests in private diagnostic centers. Private hospitals would be categorized into A, B, C and D based on number of beds, equipment, location, manpower and facilities, added Zahid Maleque.
BMA President Dr. Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin, DG Health Dr. ABM Khurshid Alam, SWACHIP President Dr. Jamal Uddin Chowdhury, Secretary General Dr. Qamrul Hasan Milon, Private Medical Association President Dr. Mubin Khan, Secretary General Anwar Hosain Khan MP, Additional Secretary Saidur Rahman, among others, were also present at the event.
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