Magura
50 India returnees put in quarantine in Magura
Fifty Bangladeshi nationals who returned home from India through Benapole on Saturday night have been placed in quarantine in Magura district.
Joynal Abedin, officer-in-charge of Magura Police Station, said the India returnees entered the country through Benapole border on Saturday night and all of them have been brought to Magura district under the supervision of police and local administration.
Later, they were taken to government quarrrantine centers Eagle Hotel and Soikat Hotel.
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Before taking to the quarantine centres, the authorities concerned took samples for their Covid test and asked them to maintain health guidelines.
Besides, the local administration also declared Hotel Mandal International and the rest house of the Department of Youth Development in Magura district town quarantine centres.
Abu Syed, Medical Officer of Magura Sadar Upazila Health Complex, said, “The Bangladeshi nationals who returned from India hail from different parts of the district and they will stay there for 14-day quarantine and the health officials will check them regularly.”
Earlier, on Saturday, a confirmed case of Indian Coronavirus strain was detected in Bangladesh, says the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research(IEDCR).
"The Indian variant of Coronavirus was detected in a sample test at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. It has been published on Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data(GSID)," said chief scientific officer of IEDCR ASM Alamgir.
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Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) DG Dr ABM Khurshid Alam also told the media that the Indian variant of Coronavirus has been found in Bangladesh.
The infected patients returned from India. They had been there for treatment, and now they’re staying in Jeshore,” he added.
Professor Nasima Sultana, additional director general of the institution, also confirmed the development at a press conference in the afternoon.
People in Magura lose hope over district medical services
People of Magura have lost hope of getting proper health services in the district. As a result, serious patients are taken to Faridpur or Jashore for treatment.
In three upazilas, there are three 50-bed upazila health complexes but the services are not up to the mark.
Even patients at Magura Medical College Hospital (MMCH) at the Sadar upazila are not getting proper treatment.
In 2017, to meet the demand of increasing patients in the district 100-bed MMCH was upgraded with 250 beds and advanced equipment. A manager was also appointed.
But its services have not developed over the years.
Though the hospital has ICU ward, ventilators and central oxygen system but coronavirus affected patients are not getting the minimum treatment facility they need.
The ICU ward, ventilators and central oxygen system- all were seen locked up.
Besides, the scarcity of staff and doctors have made the treatment quality even poorer.
There are allegations that doctors transferred to MMCH often go elsewhere (district) over lobbying.
District Civil Surgeon Dr. Shahidullah Dewan said about the manpower crisis in the hospital.
He also said that steps were being taken to solve this problem.
The people of Magura district hope the authority will take necessary steps in developing the quality of medical services, during this pandemic.
Employment generation program for poor tainted with irregularities in Magura
Allegation of irregularities, and beneficiaries being deprived has been raised in a 40-day project of the government's ‘Employment Generation Program for the poorest’ in Magura.
On a recent visit to the project sites, UNB reporter could spot maximum of 8 to 10 labourers working on each site.
The project was being conducted in a lax manner defying the government rule of appointing 35 to 40 workers to each site.
A local Awami League leader reluctant to disclose his name said the irregularities persisted in the project to benefit some corrupt public representatives of the district's Kuchiapara union.
The appointed poor workers suffer to maintain their family with the insufficient wage of Tk 200 per head, he said.
A headman from the project said the later the bills get paid the more it benefits the local chairman and MPs.
As they have to share the profits with officers, cashing bills twice in 40 days benefits them more while the poor workers suffer, added the headman.
When asked about the matter, Project Implementation Committee (PIC) members Kanak Bala, Imroj and Babul Hossain Molla claimed there is a scarcity of labourers as paddy harvesting season is going on.
Most of the project headmen echoed the same reason for inadequate labourers being appointed at the sites.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abu Sufiyan and education officer Bajnedra Nath said they have asked for increasing the number of labourers but the heads of the project didn’t pay heed.
When informed, the Project Implementation Officer of the project said bills will be paid only for the appointed number of workers.
The chairman of the union Jahangir Hossain didn’t receive the call when contacted over the phone on this matter.
Housewife ‘tortured by husband’ lands in Magura hospital
Brutally tortured ‘by husband’ for dowry, a housewife is groaning with severe pain with her broken hands and legs at Magura Sadar Hospital.
The incident took place on Friday at Sadar upazila’s Amuria village.
Smriti Begum, 35, fell unconscious when her husband Amir Hossain beat her up with an iron rod. Then Amir took her to Sadar Hospital and fled away, said the victim’s family.
Smriti’s day labourer father Sheikh Moshiar Rahman said Smirti was married to Amir 17 years ago. Since then Amir received dowry money and goods from Smriti’s father on many occasions. Five years ago he gave Amir money to go to Oman.
Victim Smriti Begum said her husband used to beat her up for dowry. After returning from Oman four months ago, Amir broke one of her hands for dowry money.
On the day of the incident, Amir and his mother took all Smriti’s jewelleries, she said.
Hospital authorities gave treatment to Smriti and later informed her family.
The incident came to light when Magura District Women’s Council and One Stop Crisis Cell officials visited her at the hospital.
Magura police Superintendent Md Jahirul Islam said legal actions will be taken as soon as the victim or her family files a complaint.
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Road crash: 4 youths killed in Cumilla, Magura
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