Covid-19 likely to remain another 2-3 years: DGHS

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday warned that the coronavirus situation may not be eliminated within months rather than it may be stayed more two or three years in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world.
“The Covid-19 situation will not go away within two or three months from our country, rather than it is likely to stay for two to three years,” said Professor Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said today.
“Even in case of decreasing the infection rates, the disease will take almost two to three years or even more than that to be under control,” the DG of the DGHS said quoting public health experts while talking to journalists during the daily health bulletin on Covid-19 on Thursday.
The DG said that he also had been infected of coronavirus and joined work after recovering only a few days ago.
“It is mandatory for all the people to follow the health guidelines and advises as long as the risk persists,” the DGHS official said.
Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad also said that the public health experts across the world are thinking that the contamination of the virus may not continuous in the same speed but to be lower in Bangladesh and the other countries.
But the spreading may not be controlled fully before two or three years.
The DG of the DGHS revealed some plans and measures which his office has taken so far.
He said that the health ministry has appointed two thousand physicians and five thousand nurses to increase capability of the government to combat with the battle against the virus.
He said that the government has a plan to extend Covid-19 test facilities in district levels and to add ICU units in district level hospitals.
The DG also vowed to provide more PPEs to health workers including doctors.
He also said also that high flow nasal cannula and oxygen concentrator will provide soon to hospitals.