More than 50 doctors and health workers are affected in Sylhet

More than 50 doctors and health workers are affected in Sylhet news by Nilkanto blog

In any epidemic, doctors and health workers jump into the fight against the invisible enemy. The same picture is seen in dealing with the corona virus.
Medical is one of the basic human rights. You have to seek medical help for health protection. People recover from the disease through the medicine-diet given by them or the service of health workers in the hospital. Just as soldiers jumped into battle to defend the sovereignty of a country, so did doctors and health workers ride in the medical care of the wounded.
In the meantime, the first corona virus in Sylhet was identified as Dr. Two doctors including Moin Uddin have died in the country.

Even after losing them, the medical community has not stopped. They are trying their best to cure people from corona virus. As a result of this attempt, 56 health workers, including 26 doctors, have been affected in the Sylhet department since April 8. Of these, 17 are female doctors.

In Sylhet district, corona virus has been detected in the bodies of 20 people including 18 intern doctors. Dr. died in it. Moin Uddin. Two employees of the hospital and health complex in the district also tested positive for Covid-19. Besides, two doctors, a health worker and five employees were injured in Sunamganj, five doctors, seven nurses and 13 health workers in Habiganj and one doctor in Moulvibazar. The district reporters of banglanews confirmed this information quoting the civil surgeons of the concerned districts.

Citing Moulvibazar Civil Surgeon Tuhid Ahmed, Divisional Senior Correspondent Biswajit Bhattacharya Bapon, who works in Srimangal, said 20 patients infected with the corona virus have been identified in the district. One of them is a doctor.

Habiganj Civil Surgeon said. Citing Mukhlesur Rahman Ujjwal, district correspondent Badrul Alam said the coronavirus had started spreading there on April 11 through a driver who came from Narayanganj. At present the number of victims in the district is 6. Among them 23 are nurses and health workers. 6 government officials and employees. The rest are people of different classes and professions.

Citing Sunamganj Civil Surgeon Shams Uddin, District Correspondent Ashikur Rahman Peer said the mass transmission of corona virus started in Sunamganj mainly through people coming from Narayanganj. The health department is trying its best to prevent the infection. Two doctors, one nurse and five other health workers in different upazilas of the district tested positive for corona.

Sylhet Assistant Director of the Department of Health. Anisur Rahman told banglanews that 40 doctors and health workers in four districts have tested positive for corona till Monday (May 4). However, he did not yet include the identification of 16 intern doctors at night.

He said that the corona positive people have been infected while going for treatment in one way or another. Especially in Habiganj, 80 percent of the people have been infected through people coming from Dhaka.

According to the Sylhet office of the health department, 18 people have been identified as corona positive so far in the department, including 5 on Monday. Of these, 6 are in Habiganj, 36 in Sunamganj, 35 in Sylhet and 20 in Moulvibazar. Then on Monday night, the hospital doctors got the news of the identification of 16 more intern doctors.

Besides, 243 people including 56 doctors and health workers in Sylhet division have tested positive since April 8. Of these, 99 were identified verbally from the PCR lab in Dhaka against nearly a thousand sample tests, but 21 received e-mail reports. As verbal reports were received from the remaining 6 persons, they were not included as originals. In this account, Dr. Moin Uddin, a child from Habiganj and a man from Moulvibazar died. On the contrary, only one patient from Sunamganj has recovered.

The number of identified patients will increase, said the Department of Health in Sylhet. Anisur Rahman said, "We did not include the verbal accounts from the PCR lab in Dhaka."