The teachers and students of Pharmacy Department of Cumilla University (CoU) have distributed over 1300 bottles of hand sanitisers for a nominal-cost during the transitional period following outbreak of coronavirus.
World Health Organisation instructed all to wash hands with soap and water or to use alcoholic hand rubs or sanitisers to stave off the virus entrance into the body.
Soon after first coronavirus case was detected in Bangladesh on March 8, the demand of face masks and hand sanitizers has risen and these started to disappear from the market.
The students and teachers of CoU had prepared 290 bottles of sanitizers with their own fund at the laboratory of Pharmaceutical Research Centre of the university and distributed those among the students, teachers and staffs of the university on Sunday.
Initially, Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof Dr Emran Kabir Chowdhury extended his support with a fund of Tk. 50,000 to take next steps. They made 1000 bottles of sanitizers more and distributed those among the university family members with a nominal-cost of Tk 25 as the amount of funded Taka was insufficient.
“We have provided each bottle of sanitizers with a very low cost of Tk 25 to compensate the subsidies. Despite having logistic shortage, we tried to help people prevent the epidemic virus in a little range,” said Syed Koushik Ahmed, Chairman of Pharmacy Department.
Earlier, the students and teachers of Pharmacy faculty of Dhaka University (DU) prepared hand sanitizers at the laboratory of Biotechnology Research Centre of DU for the university’s students and teachers to tackle coronavirus outbreak.
