Apathy of ‘unelected and irresponsible mayors, commissioners’ behind current dengue situation: BNP

UNB :
The BNP has alleged that Dhaka city is facing the worst dengue outbreak due to the apathy of “unelected and irresponsible mayors and commissioners” of the two city corporations.

Speaking at a blood donation programme for dengue patients today, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also demanded the resignation of the mayors of Dhaka South and North city corporations for their failure to tackle the dengue situation and ensure the health safety of the dwellers of the two cities.

“The government and the two city corporations have completely failed to control the dengue epidemic. They are actually completely failing to provide healthcare,” he said.

Fakhrul also said the country’s people witnessed extreme anarchy and corruption in the health sector during the Covid period.

“It has been exposed again now. There’s massive corruption in the name of procuring the pesticides and medicines to kill Aedes mosquitoes by the city corporations.

It turns out that those medicines are worthless and not helping to kill mosquitoes,” he said BNP executive committee member Tabith Awwal, who contested the last Dhaka north city corporation polls as a BNP mayoral candidate, arranged the blood donation programme at Health and Hope Hospital to stand by the dengue-affected people as the two city corporations are grappling with a serious dengue outbreak.