DHAKA, May 2, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has
distributed various types of clothes among those people who are in
institutional quarantine in Cox’s Bazar to avert the infection of Novel
Coronavirus (COVID-19).
According to a BDRCS press release today, M Keramat Ali, Programme Manager
of MRRO Programme, said they distributed clothes among 412 Rohingyas who are
now in institutional quarantine at Noyapara and Kutupalong camps in Cox’s
Bazar.
The release said alongside the government, the MRRO Programme of the
society is in charge of supervising the overall management of these people
who are in institutional quarantine.
Besides, from April 24 to April 30, around 70,000 Rohingyas washed hands
before the distribution points at 16 camps side by side also washed hands
with soaps in their camp houses.
The MRRO Programme officials of the society said that they provided some
3,85,710 antiseptic soaps among some 14,235 Rohingya nationals staying in
those 16 camps. Besides, they also continued distributing hygiene kits as
well as regularly measuring body temperature there to ensure health safety.
Meanwhile, the society has continued with distributing food materials and
food parcels among the poor and destitute people across the country through
their 68 units based in 64 districts.
Apart from this, the society is also continuing with various operations to
prevent and control COVID-19 like spraying disinfectant at various places and
establishments, distributing health safety materials like hygiene kits, hand
sanitizers, antiseptic soaps, hand gloves, eye protectors, masks, PPEs and
installed basins at various points to facilitate hand washing, and conducting
various awareness campaigns through different social media.