Coronavirus: Owners propose to turn Gazipur resort into isolation centre
Owners of an eco-resort in Gazipur have volunteered their premises to be used as an isolation centre for people on institutional quarantine or those diagnosed with coronavirus.
"All the 17 partners of the resort have agreed in this regard at a meeting," Syed Bazlul Karim, managing director and partner of Rajendra Eco Resort and Village Cottage Park, told our Moulvibazar correspondent today.
Retired senior officials of police and army, civil bureaucrats and businessmen partnered in 2009 to build the resort on 80 bighas of land in a village in Shalban, about eight kilometres from Rajendrapur Cantonment in Gazipur and near Bangabandhu Safari Park.
There are more than 100 rooms and 14 cottages, Bazlul Karim, also a freedom fighter and retired additional inspector general of police, said.
There are also several mud huts which can be used for isolation facilities, the MD said.
"I fought for the country in 1971 responding to Bangabandhu's call. This [coronavirus situation] is also a kind of war and we all have to be involved in this battle from wherever we are. Inshallah, we will win and humanity will prevail," Bazlul Karim said.
"People are becoming scared in the present situation as some are being placed in quarantine or isolation at public or private establishments in populated areas. There are many resorts on the outskirts of the cities. The owners of the resorts can come forward to help the government, because in this situation resorts will not be in business," he added.
"This is an opportunity to help the government. We should encourage others to take this initiative."
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