Order cancellation in RMG warns of tough times ahead
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Bangladesh’s economy is bracing for a serious impact as the country’s lifeline-the RMG sector-is now facing threats from both buyers' and suppliers’ ends, because of the global outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.
Global buyers have so far cancelled or placed on hold their orders of readymade garment products worth some USD 137.85 million from Bangladesh as much fashion brands have shut their stores in Europe and North America due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Initially, after the COVID-19 outbreak occurred in China in January, it had been assumed that Bangladesh would benefit, as almost all of the global brands were likely to shift their export orders from China to other RMG manufacturing countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Indonesia and Cambodia. But as a lot more than 160 countries are battling this pandemic now, that edge to getting more export orders in the RMG sector because of the coronavirus outbreak in China has been eroded, putting the economy of Bangladesh in a vulnerable position as RMG contributes around 84 % of its total export earnings.
According to the data of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), last Thursday 110 RMG factories informed the trade body that they received cancellation or shipment delay notices from the buyers for the export orders worth USD 137.85 million.
Against the background of the growing cancellation or putting needed to be given pneumonia treatment. “But no hospital in Bangladesh will admit this patient, you treat him in the home,” the physician told him. The son came back home that night and gave his father a nebuliser and an antibiotic.
On March 17, Iqbal took his father to a healthcare facility at Shyamoli. They examined his father and said the individual would want ICU support. However they said they cannot give their ICU for his father’s treatment. Next, Iqbal spoke to the Care Hospital and got him admitted to the ICU. After a quarter-hour, a healthcare facility authorities told him that they cannot keep the patient.
The son visited another hospital in Kalyanpur. “They provided a cabin for my dad as no bed was offered by their ICU. Next, I contacted the Square Hospital for a bed within their ICU. However the Square Hospital management told us to go there with all papers, however, not with the individual. They explained that his admission will be allowed only after seeing all of the papers.”
Around 12.30 pm, the doctor at a healthcare facility told the son that the patient needed a bed in ICU. “I contacted several hospitals, but no bed was available at their ICUs,” said the son.
Finally, the harried son and his younger brother visited the Delta Hospital and got their father admitted compared to that hospital at 4am on March 19. The individual was placed on life support system.
“The hospital authorities and I tried to get hold of IEDCR several times. But they failed to do so. On March 19, the IEDCR agreed to carry out the tests. The very next day, they informed us that the report was positive,” Iqbal said.
“They told us to remain at home for 15-day quarantine,” he added.
Since the report was positive, the Delta Hospital created a whole lot of pressure on them to remove the life span support. “But we continued to inform them not to remove the life support without our permission. However they didn’t even go to the patient and didn’t even why don't we enter the ICU. My dad finally died around 3am on March 21,” Iqbal said.
“We failed to request the correct treatment of my dad. Nothing can be tragic than this. We’ve been residing at home for 15 days in compliance with the government’s directive,” he added.
The son has alleged that some media outlets are spreading canards that his brother-in-law has come from abroad and he was the carrier. “That is blatant falsehood. I’ve two brothers-in law. My elder sister and her husband are professors at two government colleges in Chattogram.”
“Another brother-in-law lives in Japan. But he didn’t come to Bangladesh over the past twelve months. My elder sister and one brother-in-law found our home from Chittagong on March 19. They remain with us in home-quarantine,” he added.
Source: http://www.theindependentbd.com
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