Liquid oxygen plant to be set up in Manikganj: Health Minister

Sohail Rana, Manikganj: Health Minister Zahid Malek said that much oxygen was needed in the medical sector during Corona. Since there was less oxygen in the country at that time, oxygen was brought from the neighboring country of India and people were treated in Bangladesh. Currently, one and a half to two hundred tons of oxygen is being produced in the country. We are going to set up two liquid oxygen plants in the country aiming to take the medical sector a step further. One of which will be in Manikganj and the other will be set up in North Bengal. The Minister of Health said these things in the speech of the chief guest at the day-long surgical skills workshop for intern doctors at Colonel Malek Medical College Hospital in Manikganj on Saturday (July 23) around 2 pm. At this time, the Director General (DG) of the Health Department, Professor Dr. spoke among others. Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Abdul Latif, Superintendent of Police Mohammad Golam Azad Khan, Colonel Malek Medical College Principal Zakir Hossain Colonel Malek Medical College and Hospital Director Dr. Arshad Ullah and others.