Staff Reporter: The United States Awami League and the Awami League family have sent 78 Oxygen Concentrator machines to Bangladesh to help fight the Corona epidemic. In Bangladesh, these devices are sent to helpless people who are hospitalized after being infected with the coronavirus. When these Oxygen Concentrator machine were ordered from China in the last week of July, 12 machines reached the office of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 17. The equipment will be delivered to other locations, including the Combined Military Hospital, a source in the New York Awami League family said.
According to the source, these state-of-the-art Automatic 12 Oxygen Concentrator machines have been sent directly to the Hon’ble Prime Minister of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. On August 17, it reached the official residence of the Prime Minister, Ganobhaban. The security officials on duty on behalf of the Prime Minister received the machines.
It is learned that the Director General of Special Security Forces has confirmed that the Prime Minister has directed to send them to Tungipara, the birthplace of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Kishoreganj, the birthplace of His Excellency President Abdul Hamid and remote Haor area.
Those who have been able to send 78 Oxygen Concentrator machines with their dedicated cooperation are: Khalid Hasan, former chief adviser of the United States Awami League, former adviser Dr. Masudul Hasan, former vice-president. Mohammad Ali Manik, former office secretary engineer Mohammad Ali Siddiqui, former law secretary Adv. Shah Md. Bakhtiyar Ali, General Secretary of the California State Awami League Dr. Ravi Alam, Sheikh Kamal Memorial Council Advisor Dr. Ashfaq Hossain, Manzur Chowdhury, Vice President of Jatiya Sramik League, Rumana Akhter, Joint General Secretary of Mahila Awami League, Saifullah Bhuiyan, Joint Convener of Awami Juba League, Sahid Islam, former Vice President of USA Chhatra League and freedom fighter Kazi Monir Hossain and others. They each paid for the Oxygen Concentrator from their own funds, the source said.
In her address to the nation on the eve of the commencement of the Corona, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the Bengali nation has tackled various disasters and crises collectively. Coronavirus is also a war. In this war your responsibility is to stay at home. “Humanity is tested during disasters. Now is the time to help each other, to show humanity ‘. Inspired by the Prime Minister’s words, the expatriate Awami League and members of the Awami League family in the United States decided to send oxygen concentrating devices to the country.
BP/SM
