The Cabinet Division has urged the government officials and employees not to leave the capital Dhaka during the Eid-ul-Azha vacation against the backdrop of the dengue outbreak throughout the country.
Cabinet Division secretary (coordination and reform) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman told the journalists following a review meeting on prevention of dengue, tackling the flood situation and resisting rumours at the Cabinet Division room on Tuesday.
‘The government is discouraging the government employees not to celebrate the Eid festival outside their workstations,’ said the official, adding that the government officials and employees had been asked to keep clean their respective residences and workplaces to check the breeding of the Aedes mosquito which was responsible for dengue fever.
Referring to the Eid-ul-Azha holiday cancellation of the Health Department officials and employees, Mujibur Rahman said ‘…the physicians, who are taking training, have been asked to join their respective healthcare centres quitting their training as physicians required for dengue treatment.’