Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik on Friday said that developed countries should play a stronger role in ensuring quality healthcare services in poor countries too. “Poor countries often suffer from various food insecurities and don’t have access to quality medical care. Therefore developed countries should play a more effective role in the development of the health sector of relatively disadvantaged poor countries,” Zahid Malik said. The minister made the remarks while addressing the 5th international ministerial summit on worldwide patient safety organized by World Health Organization (WHO) at Montreal city of Switzerland. Read more: Beetroot: Nutrition, Health Benefits, Doses, Side Effects Health ministers from 80 countries were also present in the program, presided by WHO’s Director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Calling on Switzerland and other countries to support Rohingya repatriation, the minister said that the refugees are becoming a threat day by day to local people and law enforcers personnel are now also struggling to handle this community.

Bangladesh has signed an agreement to collect doses of Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine.

The government will begin inspection of all private hospitals and diagnostic centres across the country this month after collecting their lists from divisional directors.

Health Minister Zahid Malik on Thursday said 312 Bangladeshi nationals who returned from China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of coronavirus, will return home after a 14-day of quarantine on Saturday.