A Bangladeshi team to join the Covid-19 vaccination campaign (Covid-19 Dhifaau), following a request from President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
The team of 23 Bangladeshi healthcare professionals from the Bangladesh Air Force is expected to arrive in the Maldives on this Wednesday, to assist in the “Covid-19 Dhifaau” country-wide vaccination drive.
The President’s request was conveyed by Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid during his recent visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh, from February 10 to 11, 2021. During talks with his counterpart, Minister Shahid conveyed President Solih’s request for the involvement of a team of healthcare professionals from Bangladesh in the vaccination drive in the Maldives.
Accepting President Solih’s invitation, the government of Bangladesh is sending a team of 11 nurses, 10 medical assistants and an anesthesiologist, who will collaborate with local healthcare professionals. The two-month assignment will see their deployment in Malé City and regional hospitals and healthcare centres across the country. The team’s input will prove highly useful to the inoculation drive as it will enable migrant workers, many of whom come from Bangladesh, to overcome linguistic barriers that might have prevented them from accessing vaccination facilities.
The President has on several occasions made public the government’s decision to ensure fair and equitable access by everyone, citizens and expatriates alike, to vaccines. Making the Covid-19 vaccine equitably accessible to all Maldivian nationals and migrant workers — documented and undocumented migrant workers alike — is a key policy of the Government’s Covid response.
The Maldives inoculated the first batch of migrant workers under the vaccination drive on February 24,2021. As per recent statistics, 123,665 individuals have received the first dose of the vaccine.
The team of 23 Bangladeshi healthcare professionals from the Bangladesh Air Force is expected to arrive in the Maldives on this Wednesday, to assist in the “Covid-19 Dhifaau” country-wide vaccination drive.
The President’s request was conveyed by Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid during his recent visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh, from February 10 to 11, 2021. During talks with his counterpart, Minister Shahid conveyed President Solih’s request for the involvement of a team of healthcare professionals from Bangladesh in the vaccination drive in the Maldives.
Accepting President Solih’s invitation, the government of Bangladesh is sending a team of 11 nurses, 10 medical assistants and an anesthesiologist, who will collaborate with local healthcare professionals. The two-month assignment will see their deployment in Malé City and regional hospitals and healthcare centres across the country. The team’s input will prove highly useful to the inoculation drive as it will enable migrant workers, many of whom come from Bangladesh, to overcome linguistic barriers that might have prevented them from accessing vaccination facilities.
The President has on several occasions made public the government’s decision to ensure fair and equitable access by everyone, citizens and expatriates alike, to vaccines. Making the Covid-19 vaccine equitably accessible to all Maldivian nationals and migrant workers — documented and undocumented migrant workers alike — is a key policy of the Government’s Covid response.
The Maldives inoculated the first batch of migrant workers under the vaccination drive on February 24,2021. As per recent statistics, 123,665 individuals have received the first dose of the vaccine.
