Mysterious disease

In this regard, I want to say something about the possibility of emergence of these fatal viral diseases in our country. Bangladesh is very much vulnerable to these diseases. We have wide unprotected borders, airports and seaports having no active medical surveillance facilities. It's a matter of regret that our health department has no preparation to combat such fatal diseases that we recognised after that detection of Nipah virus at Goalanda. The Nipah virus had earlier been detected at Atlanta in the US. We have no facilities to diagnose such cases. No steps have yet been taken to find out the source. How did it spread in our country? Nobody can answer. The health authorities appear to be unperturbed.

I cannot imagine what will happen if other fatal viruses like SARS and Japanese encephalitis virus spread in our country. What will then our health policy makers do? Who will be responsible for that? I think it's more important to be prepared to combat such fatal diseases than spending so much energy on foiling hartal called by the opposition. Such neglect and ignorance may cause a major health disaster in our country. So it's time to think how we can prevent the emergence of these fatal viral diseases. Only a proper policy and implementation of it in vulnerable points can prevent the outbreak of such diseases and also save valuable lives.