Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Sept-01,
Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina on Wednesday told Parliament that the government has taken steps to get
over one crore coronavirus vaccine doses every month.
“Steps have been taken
to ensure more than one crore vaccine doses every month,” she said.
She made the statement
while answering a tabled question from ruling party MP Shahiduzzaman Sarker
during PM’s question-answer session.
Sheikh Hasina said that
as per the schedule Bangladesh will get two crore vaccine doses each month from
Sinopharm from next October. Until December some six crore jabs will come from
Sinopharm, she said.
She also said that so
far (August 30) some 1,82,89,018 persons got first dose of vaccine while
78,40,169 persons got second shot. In total 2,61,29,187 doses of vaccines have
been given.
“Collection of vaccines
is on while providing the shots free to the people,” she said.
The prime minister said
that the government has established contacts with all vaccine producing
organisations.
“Of them we got
response from Indian Serum Institute and booked three crore doses of vaccines
with advance payment,” she said.
She also mentioned that there was no response
from other vaccine producing companies.
“Later, Sinopharm from
China and Sputnik-V gave response, we took initiative as soon as we got their
response. We have inked agreement with Sinopharm and also signed Memorandum of
Understanding for local production,” she said.
Responding to a
question from Shamim Haider Patwari from Jatiya Party, the prime minister said
that the government has taken move for permanent solution to river erosion.
She said that Delta
Plan 2100 has been taken for overall river management, water supply in urban
and rural areas, waste management and flood control apart from flood
protection, control river erosion, river
training and maintain navigability.
She mentioned that in
this plan the whole country has been divided into seven river basins and
surveys are going on.
The surveys in
Karnaphuli, Sangu and Matamuhiri rivers have been completed.
She said that besides
increasing capability of water flow, through taking steps to maintain
sustainability in the rivers and follow appropriate siltation management
strategy it will be possible to attain desired sustainable development by
reducing flood risk and protecting river erosion in the erosion-prone areas.
Replying to Mahfuzur
Rahman the PM said that in the last four years it was possible to meet the
demand of sacrificial animals through domestic production due to various steps
of the government.
She said that during
the Eid ul Azha the number of available animals was around 1,19,16,700 while
90,93,242 animals were actually sacrificed.
“That means around 28
lakh animals remained surplus,” she added.
She also mentioned that
in the last 12 years milk production increased five times while egg production
four times.
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