DGHS DG’s comment on COVID-19 is irresponsible, frustrating: Quader

The director general (DG) of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has made an irresponsible remark on COVID-19, which has frustrated the country’s people, said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

He said the “shortsighted and ignorant” statement of a senior health official about the duration of the coronavirus crisis has made the people disappointed.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said “Making an irresponsible remark at a sensitive point of time was not right for someone in a responsible position.” 

He was speaking at a virtual press briefing from his official residence on Friday.

At the regular news bulletin of the DGHS, its director general Dr Abul Kalam Azad on Thursday said the coronavirus situation is not going to end in one, two or three months, while the virus infection may continue for the next two to three years or more.