DHAKA: The government is supplying personal protective equipments (PPE) for the Bangladeshi members in the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Mission.

The medical stuffs are being sent to keep the Bangladeshi nationals safe as they are working to contain the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim made the disclosure while addressing a press conference at his office on Tuesday.

He told the journalists that a total of 380 PPEs will be sending for them.

The government is providing 300 PPEs and World Health Organization (WHO) the rest, he added.

One hundred of them have already been sent, he added.

Moreover, the minister said, “Medicines of 65 categories, worth Tk 1 crore, have also been sent to the West African countries.”

Mohammad Nasim also told reporters that the situation of Ebola outbreak is now a little bit under control.

Director General of Health Department Professor Dr Din Mohammad Nurul Haque and central medical stores depot director Brigadier General Mohammad Golam Rasul were among others present.

BDST: 1745 HRS, AUG 19, 2014