Many citizens have also raised demands for holding former health advisor Nurjahan Begum accountable through various social media platforms, including Facebook, for the deaths of children one after another due to measles.

On the other hand, public health experts say that the common people of the country are now having to pay the price due to the ‘shortsightedness’ of the previous government led by Muhammad Yunus in purchasing vaccines.

“During the interim government, an initiative was taken to bring about a change in the vaccine procurement system. The initiative is good, but it was taken without the necessary prior preparation. As a result of such short-sighted steps, the vaccination program has been disrupted and it has definitely had a negative impact on the country’s health sector,” Dr. Mushtaq Hossain, former chief scientific officer and public health expert at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) of Bangladesh.But what kind of changes did the interim government make in terms of vaccine procurement? How did that initiative create a crisis in the health sector?