Bangladesh, July 14 -- The government has cancelled the leave of health workers in flood-affected districts and taken extensive measures to ensure uninterrupted healthcare services for people hit by the ongoing floods, Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain said on Monday.
"Health workers in flood-hit areas have been kept on duty by cancelling their leave. Adequate supplies of medicines, oral saline, anti-snake venom and necessary healthcare personnel have been ensured so that no patient is deprived of treatment," he said at a press conference held at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
The minister said continuous heavy rainfall and flash floods caused by upstream hill runoff ha...