Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury on Sunday said the country’s health system has collapsed due to the ‘wrong’ policy of the government as it is suffering from ‘dependency syndrome’.
“The Covid death rate has increased in the country because of the government’s wrong policy. The government has been walking on a wrong path for which the health system has completely collapsed,” he said.
He said the government should take steps to set up oxygen plants in 64 districts to save people’s lives. “The cost of the most advanced technology capable of producing 50 tonnes of oxygen per month is only Tk 60 million. There’re many business institutions that can do this. If we could have 64 oxygen production centres in 64 districts, no one of us would die from lack of oxygen.”
Zafrullah, a freedom fighter, said the government considers people as its subjects and it does not feel it necessary to be accountable to them. “There’s now no politics in the country while the businessmen and bureaucrats are ruling the country with guns on the shoulders of the prime minister.”