Bangladesh seeks increased support from China with PPE, ventilators
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday sought increased support from China as the number of coronavirus cases is rising in Bangladesh.
He mentioned about personal protective equipment and ventilators, saying Bangladesh will be needing more support, reports UNB.
Health Minister was speaking in a videoconference between medical researchers from Bangladesh and China.
He also appreciated China's support to Bangladesh to fight COVID-19 and hoped that the relations between your two countries will be strengthened.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming laid emphasis on collective efforts saying this virus respects no borders. "Most of us must interact."
He said a medical team will be arriving in Bangladesh to help deal with the existing situation.
Ambassador Jiming said he has every confidence that Bangladesh will win in this battle against coronavirus.
Dr Zhang Wenhong, Professor and Head of the guts for Infectious Disease, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, shared his experience about the coronavirus pandemic.
The participants from six different locations exchanged their ideas and laid focus on international cooperation.
As the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine of Fudan University in Shanghai, Dr Zhang may be the leader of Shanghai's Anti-COVID-19 clinical expert team.
He has comprehensive experience with the diagnosis and treatment of varied emerging infectious diseases, according to Chinese Embassy in Dhaka.
Dr Zhang is a graduate of Shanghai Medical University and has held visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow positions at the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard Medical School and Illinois State University at Chicago.
He has gained tens of an incredible number of followers on social media and been dubbed "Dad Zhang" for his outspoken, down-to-earth speak about the disease.
The 51-year-old first started getting attention towards the end of January when he told media he assigned doctors who were Communist Party members to just work at a hospital on leading type of the coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai.
