A 10-member Chinese medical team with expertise in treating Covid-19 patients reached Dhaka today.
“They landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:40am on a special chartered flight of Hainan Airlines,” Ashrafun Nahar, a doctor at the health desk at the airport, told The Daily Star.
The medical team also brought several necessary types of medical equipment, she said.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming welcomed the team at the airport.
The team members already discussed and studied the appropriate measures and advice for Bangladeshi people, the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka, said.
The Chinese Embassy said the team’s arrival shows one of the reflections of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s assurance to Bangladesh in fighting Covid-19 together.
The team has been organised by the National Health Commission and consists of 10 respiratory physicians selected by the Hainan Provincial Health Commission, according to the officials at the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka.
In their two weeks stay in Bangladesh, the experts will visit designated hospitals, quarantine centres, and testing centres, discuss the pandemic with Bangladeshi counterparts, and make calibrated propositions for containment and treatment.