Gaibandha General Hospital in a shambles

GAIBANDHA, Mar 18: The day-t0-day medical services at Gaibandha General Hospital in Gaibandha district town have almost been disrupted due to mismanagement.

Patients are deprived of proper medicare as dirty environment is prevailing in the hospital.

Patients have alleged that there are no enough drugs, doctors and beds in the hospital.

Due to lack of beds, patients are undergoing medicare on the floor. The wards are inappropriate for the use of unclean toilets.

Due to this, patients, who come to seek treatment, are suffering.

However, the hospital authorities have cited manpower and infrastructure problems for the disruption to the medical services.

According to sources at the hospital, the hospital was declared as a 250-bed hospital in terms of the demand for the district residents.

But, there is no bed doctor. A total of 42 doctors are needed as a bed. There are currently 19 people. For a long time, the posts of 23 doctors are zero. There is no physician in this hospital.

On average, 1,500 patients have to serve in the hospital every day, the source also said.

In addition, nearly 300 patients get admitted daily. Due to the crisis, the doctor is struggling to serve them.

It was found that the relatives were standing in front of the ticket counter. Patients are

standing in front of the doctor's chamber.

He got a bed of treatment on the porch of the hospital. The relatives are with the patient. On the other hand, the child ward is in sorry state.

The hospital is a place of treatment for about 35 lakh people in the district.

Patients and their attendants alleged that they had to stand in a line for a long time, but had to return to frustration at the end of the day because of shortage of doctors and drugs.

Different organisations spoke against the sorry state of the hospital.

Asifur Rahman, resident medical officer of the hospital, said patients were suffering for shortages of doctors and infrastructures.

Hospital caretaker Dr Mahbub Hossain said everything in the hospital is regularly cleaned.

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