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The board of trustees of the public health center, which was outraged by the government’s failure to approve the kit, said in an interview with various media outlets at the Dhanmondi city public health hospital on Thursday night .
Jafrullah said: “Public health was the first to invent antigen and antibody kits. The equipment is being tested by the government in a US laboratory.
“So I mean the government, I made this kit for the people of my country. I have fought with ambassadors in four countries. I said, it’s good if it’s good for our country, bad if it’s bad, why bother?
“Then they gave us a new condition on the kit, to be tested in an external laboratory in the United States or Sweden. We will have to spend another million rupees there. “
Jafrullah said: “The antigen kits that the government is importing from South Korea have not been tested in American laboratories.
“Now the thing is that South Korea has to pass the test that I have to pass. But in the case of South Korea, they are not following that policy. The government is doing it completely illegally.”
He also expressed his suspicion that money was involved in the importation of South Korean kits.
Only CDC in the United States sampled public health kits
The public health kit was not approved by the government
Complexity of ‘work permit’: Bijan Kumar Shil returned to Singapore
Business motive behind the government’s decision: Jafrullah
At the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, the local company Public Health Pharmaceuticals announced the invention of the ‘Rapid’ kit to detect Covid-19. But the government Department of Drug Administration did not approve the kit because it was not “approved.”
Jafrullah Chowdhury had been complaining against the government health department from the beginning.
As there is no work permit in the country, the inventor of this kit returned to Singapore last month. Bijan Kumar Sheel, who is investigating Singapore citizenship there.
Bangladesh has so far only used RTPCR for coronavirus detection. However, to speed up testing, the antigen test has now been approved.
Director General of the Department of Health on Wednesday. ABM Khurshid Alam told bdnews24.com that the antigen test would start soon.
Initially, he said that 2 lakh kits would be available in a day or two, but did not say where they would come from.
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