Manasa Karmakar of Narbalakhana village in Shariatpur Sadar Upazila has returned home from Italy after 14 years. He is scheduled to return to Italy next April. Before that, he wants to get vaccinated against coronavirus (Covid-19). But Mansa is not able to register for the ticker as she does not have a national identity card. So you are not getting vaccinated. Many expatriates are not able to get vaccinated at the moment due to this problem like Mansa.
The health department and the local administration are not able to give them any solution in this regard. And the district election office says the process of issuing new identity cards will start next month.
Manasa returned to the country from Italy in December 2019. Go to India on personal business in February last year. Corona is stuck there for some time due to lockdown. After that, he is trying to get a national identity card after returning to the country from India. “Vaccination has already started,” he said. I went to the vaccination center and the health department with my passport. But could not register for the ticker. Registration is not possible without a National Identity Card number. Many like me are in trouble because they do not have the opportunity to register with their passport number. ‘
When asked, Abdullah Al Murad, a civil surgeon in Shariatpur, told NatunNews Monitor, “You have to register for a vaccination with your national identity card number.” There was no other option. Many expatriates are coming to us for vaccination, but we are not able to vaccinate them as they are not registered. ‘
Alamgir Mallick, a resident of Mashura village in Naria, is in the same predicament as Mansa. He returned from Saudi Arabia on January 16 after 20 years. .When Mallick went to Saudi Arabia, there was no national identity card in the country. On February 17, he went to Naria Upazila Health Complex to get vaccinated. But he could not register the vaccine as he did not have a national identity card. .He claimed to Prothom Alo that more than one and a half lakh people of Shariatpur live in different countries of the world. Being out of the country for a long time, he could not get the national identity card. Now, even after returning to the country, he is not able to get a national identity card for various reasons. His question is, why can’t they get vaccinated?
According to the health department, in the first phase, 36,000 vaccinations are being given in Shariatpur. As of Tuesday, 11,573 people have been vaccinated. Vaccination centers have been set up at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital, five Upazila Health Complexes, and District Police Hospital. And to help the general public register, registration booths have been set up at each Union Digital Center.
Shariatpur District Election Officer Mohammad Zahid Hossain said, “Many expatriates are contacting us to get national identity cards. However, we do not have any statistics on the number of them. The process of issuing new identity cards will start next March.
In this situation, the deputy commissioner of Shariatpur said that there is some hope for the expatriates who are in trouble to get vaccinated. Parvez Hasan. He said in the first light, those who do not have a national identity card but a passport, the issue of vaccination will be seriously considered. The district administration will take effective steps in coordination with the health department.
