At one time the price of Corona test kit was two thousand eight hundred rupees. Three and a half thousand samples were taken at the private level for testing. Now the price of the kit has come down from Tk 950 to Tk 980 depending on the brand, but it is taken for the test at Tk 3,500. If you collect samples from home, you have to pay 4 thousand rupees.

Although the price of the kit has been reduced by more than half, the officials of the health department and the institutions are getting the same information about the corona test fee at the private level. Due to the procrastination of the private medical association and the department, the victims have to pay extra money for the epidemic.

Corona testing has not been easy, even after more than a year of infection. People with a certain number of symptoms get the opportunity to give samples every day at various government centers. The rest have to go to the private sector where the fees are high.

Although the new fee was set at a meeting of the Department of Health and the private medical association online, there was mixed information about it from both sides.

Director of the Department of Non-Communicable and Infectious Diseases of the Department of Health, Prof. Robed Amin said that if anyone does a CT scan for Covid 19, it is priced at Rs 6,000 and it is fixed. 1500 rupees will be taken at private level for sample testing and 2000 rupees will be taken for taking samples from home. If anyone has left more than that, they are doing it wrong.

MA Mubin Khan, president of Bangladesh Private Medical Association, said that what was 3500 has been increased to 3000 and home collection which was 4500 rupees has been increased to 3600 rupees.