Bangladesh medical team continues to support Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 18: A Bangladesh Army team comprising 30 Doctors and 70 ICU Assistants continues to support Kuwait in her fight against COVID-19. The team arrived Kuwait on April 11, 2020 as a gesture of Bangladesh Government’s willingness to stand beside Health Ministry of Kuwait as the deadly pandemic swept all over the world. Over last six months, this Emergency Medical Team relentlessly worked hand in hand with the Kuwait Ministry of Health colleagues as FRONT-LINE RESPONDERS in different COVID Hospitals, Field Facilities and Quarantine Centers across the country.
At the outbreak of COVID-19 global pandemic, Bangladesh, despite her own domestic scarcity, was one of the leading countries to extend medical support within just two weeks of the request trade by the Government of Kuwait. Bangladesh and Kuwait enjoy special bilateral relationship since the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Bilateral relationship reached a new height with Bangladesh Army’s participation as a coalition force during Gulf War 1990-91.
Building further on that relationship, Operation Reconstruction of Kuwait was
launched immediately after the liberation of Kuwait as a friendship bridge between the two esteemed Militaries and the two Governments. The objective was to make safe the lives and properties of brotherly Kuwaiti people through extensive search-clearance-demolition operations against the menace of vastly and densely scattered mines and explosives from Kuwaiti soil. Bangladesh Military Con
tingent to Kuwait knitting herself with Kuwait Armed Forces simultaneously engaged in rebuilding efforts of the State of Kuwait by providing technical and vocational expertise in the fields of medical, engineering, communication etc.
The effort of Bangladesh Military Contingent continues till date with increasing impetus and stronger bonding between the two countries.