Health minister Zahid Maleque has termed the report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) over purchasing the Covid-19 vaccines baseless and misleading.
Rejecting TIB’s report, he said the government will take action against the TIB if needed in the interest of the country.
He said:"TIB has disseminated such disinformation to tarnish the image of the country.
He came up with the remarks at a press conference on Monday at the secretariat in Dhaka over TIB’s report revealed on April 12.
Regarding the report, he said: "A total of Tk 200 billion was spent in purchasing the jabs. And we have estimated the monetary value of 95 million vaccines received as gifts is Tk 200 billion—the amount we didn’t spend. We have added up , which doesn’t mean that we had to spend Tk 400 billion.”
"TIB conducted the survey collecting information from only 105 centres. They only talked to 1800 people over the phone. But we inoculated vaccines to over 200 million people," he added.
He questioned the survey because of 'insufficient participants'.
