Md Salimuzzaman Bhuiyan

The coronavirus crisis continues to engulf the country as well as the rest of the world. A large number of doctors in Bangladesh (62 as of July 5)—mostly senior clinicians working on the front line—have died due to Covid-19.

Coronavirus infection is a global public health disaster. The virus has exposed the ugly face and serious weakness of public health service in Bangladesh. It is now important to admit that the public health service is poorly funded and not fit for purpose. We can’t rule out the possibility of another new virus outbreak and pandemic in a few years’ time.

I have received a phone call from one of my friends, a retired ENT professor in Bangladesh. He informed me that alarmingly a high number of doctors and healthcare workers are getting infected with Covid despite using PPEs.

I continue to battle with Covid-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

It is emotionally upsetting to look after my colleagues who are fighting for their lives in the ICU.

I continue to look after ventilated Covid patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). We are dealing with the sickest patients in the hospital.

I work as a consultant anaesthetist and intensivist in a small district general hospital in north-west England.