DHAKA, June 19, 2024 (BSS) - Health Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen today asked the authorities of all public hospitals in flood-affected Sylhet region to keep an adequate stock of saline and medicines to tackle the outbreak of water-borne diseases including diarrhoea.

He gave the directives during an urgent meeting -- with the concerned officials of the Sylhet division's health service sector -- through videoconferencing from the Bangladesh Secretariat here.

The health minister said enough saline and medicines should be stored in hospitals and medical centres to deal with the outbreak of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases in flood-affected region.