Foreign minister Dr A K Abdul Momen on Wednesday said Bahrain has assured that it would not deport any Bangladeshi expatriate workers from its territory amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Besides, the Middle Eastern country would provide legal status to those Bangladeshi workers who have been staying there as illegal,” he said while inaugurating a tele-medicine advising call centre named “Probash Bandhu” for Bangladeshi expatriate workers residing in Bahrain through a video conference from Foreign Ministry here.
During the video conference, Bangladesh Ambassador to Bahrain Dr M Nazrul Islam said that nearly 200,000 Bangladeshi expatriates are now residing in Bahrain, a country of which has a population of 1,500,000, reports BSS.
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak and secretaries of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment and ICT Division also took part in the video conference.
The Bangladesh expatriates can get health advice from 9am to 9pm by making phone call to the call centre to be operated by 12 doctors of Bahrain with the support of 10 physicians from Dhaka.
The phone numbers of the call centre are: +8809611999111, imo number -01400611995, 01400611996, 01400611997, 01400611998 and 01958105020 and WhatsApp number – 01400611997, 01400611998.