Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government has been able to put coronavirus under control in the country as different ministries and government organisations, including the Health Ministry and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), worked in a synchronised way with utmost sincerity. "Some people are saying many things regarding the Directorate General of Health Services or Health Ministry…whatever I’ve directed them on an emergency basis they did that. They worked properly…that’s why we’ve been able to put coronavirus under control," she said. The Prime Minister said this in her introductory speech at a meeting of  the Awami League Central Working Committee at her official residence Ganobhaban. Sheikh Hasina said when she directed them to do anything on coronavirus-related issues she asked them to work promptly bypassing the mandatory government rules as those were very much urgent to provide medical services to the people of the country. "We’ve to work… we’ve to procure various materials, we’ve to provide treatment to people, we’ve to go to people and that's the most important thing. There is no need to follow all the rules when it comes to emergency matters. If anyone falls into any trouble for anyone, we’ll look after that," she said. Hasina said the government recruited 2,000 doctors and 3,000 nurses along with some technicians on an emergency basis to provide medical services to patients. "I asked the Finance Ministry and Public Administration Ministry and other related ministries to sit together. I gave the decision and signed papers instantly to recruit these doctors, nurses and technicians," she said. Sheikh Hasina, also the chief of the ruling Awami League, said the government relaxed some rules in this connection as the country needs more doctors, nurses and technicians to face the coronavirus. In the initial stage, she said, the government made an estimate of how many people could be infected with coronavirus, how many people need to be taken into quarantine, and prepared hospitals based on that estimate. "We prepared hospitals up to district level with oxygen supply facilities and ICUs as soon as possible. But this is right that in the beginning we had to ensure some pains… we did that gradually at all the places," she said. The Prime Minister thanked all the government organisations and Awami League and its associated bodies for their coordinated and sincere efforts to help people unitedly.   "It’s only the Awami League for which people get cooperation. Had there been any other party (in power), numerous people would have died, people would have undergone indescribable sufferings."  She also said the example of such coordinated and sincere efforts is rare in the country. Talking about the problems of expatriate Bangladeshis in different parts of the world, the Prime Minister said the government tried to ease their sufferings and even sent special aircraft to bring them back home. "They’re the children of this soil…we see them as human beings…we’ve provided incentives to them abroad through our ministry concerned."