The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh and China's Ministry of Commerce on Thursday signed an agreement to set up a 150-bed burn unit at Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
Md Anwar Hossain Hawladar, secretary of the Health Services Division of the health ministry, and Yao Wen, ambassador of China to Bangladesh, signed the deal at the meeting room of the health ministry.
According to the agreement, the burn unit will be set up with full support from the Chinese government. All kinds of medical equipment and furniture required for the unit will also be provided by the Chinese.
The burn unit will have an outdoor, indoor and emergency department, 10 ICU beds, 10 HDU beds for men, 10 HDU beds for women, and five HDU beds for children.
The construction work of the burn unit will take two years to complete, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said.
"The burn unit at Chittagong Medical College Hospital will reduce pressure on the 500-bed Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka. We have also initiated to build five burn institutes in five divisions. With these, there will be seven quality burn institutes in the country," the minister said.
