Amid the threat of Covid-19 transmission, Bashundhara Ad-Din Hospital in Keraniganj has been providing health services maintaining social distances.

Every day, around 250 patients are receiving services from the hospital outdoors. Authorities have also arranged separate facilities at the hospital gate to provide services to those who are suffering from colds and coughs.

Siddiqur Rahman Suman, deputy manager of Bashundhara Ad-Din Medical College Hospital, said, “We are providing health services at the hospital at this moment of coronavirus crisis. About 200 to 250 patients come to us every day. Our doctors and nurses and brothers are sincerely providing services to them.”

Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), doctors and brothers are providing services at the indoor and emergency departments, he added.

He also mentioned that the underprivileged, marginalised people, middle-class, lower-middle class as well as pregnant women and children are always getting priority at this hospital.