Novo Nordisk, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) provided different medical services to the visitors at Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF).
On an average about 20-30 people, including some foreigners, received different types of primary treatment everyday from the Novo Nordisk first aid stall at free of cost, its official said.
The health problems include, he said, cuts and wounds resulted from stall-erection and stumbling, hallucination, hypoglycemia and body pain.
The Pakistani and Indian people are mainly facing cold and allergy problems.
Novo Nordisk, a company in diabetic care, also provided free check-up of diabetes and prescription from its first aid stall. The number of people receiving the diabetic services is around 250 on normal days and it crossed 1,000 on the weekly holidays, he said.
"We are prepared to handle even the critical patients all-time during the fair," a doctor at the stall added.
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) are collecting blood from the volunteer blood donors at the fair, officials at their stalls said.
Meanwhile, around 10 people were injured, three of them critically, as a carousel at the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) crashed Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.
The accident took place at around 9:00pm Wednesday, they said.
Of the injured persons, mostly visitors at the DITF, an old-aged man and a child were critically wounded, they said.
They injured people took primary treatment at the first aid stall of Novo Nordisk at the DITF.
"The 55-year old man needed 12 stitches on different parts of his body including head and the 9-year child, Masifur Rahman, needed three stitches on his chin," a doctor at the Novo Nordisk first aid stall told the FE.
"We provided treatment to about 10 people, who were injured following the accident," he added.
Acquitting himself as a ministry staff and on-duty employee at the DITF, an eyewitness said that the accident, in fact, raised a question about the feasibility and permission of setting up the temporary carousel at the DITF.
Shubhashish Bose, vice-chairman of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), the organiser of the DITF, said, "In the future, we will take precautionary steps so that such unexpected incidents do not take place further."
"Especially, we will require having of certification by the engineers concerned for installing such carousels at the DITF," Mr Bose continued.
The carousel company, allowed this year, will no longer be permitted in the future at the international trade fair, he added.
When his attention was drawn to absence of any first aid measures from the organiser at the fair, he said, "To render such services, we have allowed that private institution."
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