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It is known that the Health Department was unable to start work within 24 hours after the Health Department took over the management of coronavirus testing in Bangladesh. But there has been widespread discussion about eliminating the testing responsibilities of the Institute of Disease Pathology, Control and Research (IEDCR).
Health department officials argue that the IEDCR has failed in its primary job of monitoring the quality of laboratories across the country and analyzing the infection situation. In addition, the collection and testing of samples throughout the country was not successful.
In response to the allegations, sources with the Health Department said that the IEDCR laboratory was infected last week and that the laboratory had to be closed for 24 hours. Some of them are said to have been diagnosed with coronavirus while working in the IEDCR laboratory.
Sources in the health department also raised the question of why there would be such a problem in the IEDCR laboratory.
However, IEDCR officials have denied stopping the tests in their laboratories due to the coronavirus infection.
According to health department sources, at a rate at which coronavirus infections are on the rise, at least 10,000 samples are analyzed in 24 hours. They consider that IEDCR does not have the capacity to collect and maintain this large number of samples.
Professor Abul Kalam Azad, director general of the health department, said: corona Coronavirus has spread throughout the country. That is why the test needs to be further improved. It is now being tested in 31 laboratories. IEDCR is responsible for monitoring the quality of these laboratories.
“They have more responsibilities,” he said. Many die without these symptoms and people from many professions, including the police, are being infected. We need to know why this happens. The situation needs to be analyzed. IEDCR’s mandate is to do these things. They will now. We discuss it and fix it.
‘IEDCR is becoming a research and reference laboratory. Now they will study the quality of the tests carried out in different laboratories in the country, “said the director general of the health department.
Although IEDCR officials have not officially commented on the matter, various sources within the organization said that IEDCR has been at the forefront since the coronavirus situation began. In this context, the government may be jealous of some institutions for removing them from the responsibility of administering the exams.
In addition, sources said that since the workforce was low, the Health Department was helping them with labor to collect and analyze samples across the country. As a result, they think that is one of the reasons for taking control of the health department.
However, IEDCR officials have so far refused to accept allegations of breach of duty.
Sources from the health department said there were many complaints from the IEDCR about delays in collecting samples and tests. The last problem in his lab was that 1,500 samples got caught in the test. Now they are being sent to various laboratories.
A former director of the Department of Disease Control. Benazir Ahmed said: “IEDR has no authority over health workers and field hospitals for testing.” As a result, they don’t pay attention to IEDCR in that way, causing problems.
That is why they have advised experts to remove the organization from this responsibility a long time ago, he said.
He added: “If we had looked a little further, we would have made this decision a long time ago. The downside now is that we have not performed a variety of pathology tests. As a result, there is no such test, making the decision difficult to proceed with. .
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