90% of Covid patients hail from rural areas: Health DG

Ninety percent of the patients infected with corona virus in the country are from rural areas. Most of them did not get vaccinated.

Directorate General of the Department of Health, Prof. Dr. Abul Bashar said. Khurshid Alam said while speaking as the chief guest at the annual conference of the Public Health Association of Bangladesh in the capital on Friday (September 3).

Most of the people in the village were not vaccinated and the death toll was high. In addition, delay in hospitalisation is another major cause of death.

People were flocking to the district hospitals, medical college hospitals and central hospitals due to the poor quality of treatment in the local hospitals, Prof Abul Bashar said.

He said the challenges at the peripheral public health sector are much higher. But efforts are underway to overcome the situation. Central oxygen has been provided to the upazila level hospitals to deal with the deadly coronavirus treatment.

"No matter how bad the corona situation is, our health workers have been by the side of the patients before and will continue to be so in the future," Khurshid Alam said.

Meanwhile, the total number of deaths from coronavirus in the country so far stands at 26 thousand 362. Besides, the total number of corona victims stood at 15 lakh 7 thousand 116 people. A total of 14 lakh 36 thousand 75 people have recovered.