JHENIDAH, Feb 16: Cancer patients seeking treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) suffers a lot as there is no radiotherapy machine to give them proper treatment.
There are so many such machines working in different medical colleges, sources said.
Khulna is the 3rd largest divisional city and an industrial region. More than 40 million people live in its ten districts, which is one-fourth of the total population of the country.
Although more than one full-fledged medical colleges are in Dhaka, Chittagong and Rajshahi divisions each, only one full-fledged college hospital of this type having 500 beds, is giving health care to so vast a population in Khulna division.
Because of the good communication system between Khulna and Gopalganj and Pirojpur districts under Dhaka division, many people come to this hospital for improved treatment.
Patients from the remote areas, district and upazila-level hospitals and clinics under the division are referred to KMCH.
Many of the treatment-seekers coming to the hospital are cancer patients.
However, in absence of a radiotherapy machine, only primary treatment and chemotherapy in outdoors can be given to them.
Out of the radiotherapy-dependent patients, the affluent ones go abroad for treatment, and the poor helpless sufferers meet agonizing death for lack of treatment.
In 2012, Messrs Trade-Vision supplied an ultra-modern machine (Leaner Escalator) to KMCH as per the order of the Ministry of Health and Family Planning. It is, however, a matter of great sorrow that the machine could not be installed until now. To run the machine, decimetry and immobilisation set will be needed.
Concerned authority has applied for required fund, and if it is sanctioned by the ministry, purchase will be done. Some of the manpower needed to run the machine is working at present, and the rest can be posted at the ministry's sweet will.
As the leaner escalator machine is ultra-modern, all types of diagnosis are possible to do. As a result, the hospital authority demanded installation of the machine here.
Dr. Abdus Samad, Director, KMCH, told the Financial Express that patients would be deprived of treatment facilities. In the digital Bangladesh as declared by the Prime Minister, it is desirable that patients will get modern health care.
Besides, the 500-bed hospital has been running with the manpower of a 250-bed one for over six years with no specialist doctors in the departments of neuro-medicine, neurosurgery, cardiology, urology and anesthesia.
The director demanded the posting of the doctors immediately for better health service at the hospital.
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