| Summary: | Bangladesh Health Watch, a citizens’ platform for improved accountability of the
country’s healthcare system through evidence based policy review and citizen
feedback, is deeply concerned at the recent steep increase in case numbers and
continuation of unnecessary deaths due to Covid-19. On the contrary, Bangladesh
remains at the bottom of the league table in South Asia in terms of the proportion of
people tested for the disease. It is equally concerned at the failure of much of the
population to adhere to basic prevention norms and the rising incidences of fear and
stigma in the society. The Bangladesh Health Watch believes that in order to combat a
crisis as large and complex as the Covid-19, the country needs a ‘whole of the society’
approach in which every group and individual is mobilized to fight the scourge, as we
did in the War of Liberation. Unfortunately this is sadly absent. The Watch believe that
the social and scientific aspects of the planned ‘reopening’ on 31 st May 2020 and its
likely consequences have not been duly considered.
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