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Bangladesh to send medicine worth Tk 20cr to Bhutan

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Published: 14:43, 23 July 2018   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Bangladesh to send medicine worth Tk 20cr to Bhutan

Secretariat Correspondent: Bangladesh will send medicine worth Tk 20 crore for the people of Bhutan as per the commitment of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim handed over medicine as a token to the Bhutanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Sonam Tobden Rabgye at a programme at his ministry conference room at the secretariat here on Monday.

“Our PM committed to Bhutan to supply medicine for one year free of cost while visiting the country in 2017 … Following the commitment we will start supplying the medicine worth Tk 20 crore in September,” said the minister.

“We will finish supply of the medicine within October,” Nasim added.

The friendship of the two countries would be stronger after supplying of the medicine, he said.

Secretary (health education and family welfare) GM Saleh Uddin and Director General of Directorate General of Health Services Dr Abul Kalam Azad were present at the programme.


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