Bangladesh, March 31 -- Amid alarming spread of measles due to non-availability of vaccines thus affecting thousands of children in Bangladesh, which is rapidly evolving into a public health emergency—co-chair of Jatiya Party, Sahidur Rahman Tapa has expressed grave concern and called for national unity in immediately addressing the crisis by importing required vaccine from any available source.

According to media reports, during recent weeks, hospitals Dhaka city as well as districts are seeing growing number of children (mostly below 18 months age) with measles infection.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has directed two senior ministers to travel across the South Asian nation of 170 million people to assess the scale of...