Many who have registered for the COVID-19 vaccine have not received an SMS from the Directorate General of Health Services confirming their vaccination date, causing worry.
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Today we are unable to say what we had been saying until now. We have found three patients.
These were the words of the then IEDCR director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora on March 8 after the first detection of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, which changed everything, most probably forever.
Since then, Covid-19 infections multiplied, the number of deaths increased with every passing day and more importantly, the pandemic laid bare the vulnerability of the country s healthcare system.
Uncertainty, lax coordination, disparity in providing health services, corruption and a dearth of logistics and manpower spoke volumes of a weak health sector and its weaker institutions in tackling an unprecedented health emergency that marked the year 2020.