Raninagar health complex runs with three physicians

NAOGAON, Oct 26: Healthcare services in Raninagar upazila health complex is being hindered severely due to lack of sufficient number of physicians.

The health complex is running with only three physicians against eleven posts.

Sources said the hospital was established in 1984 with 31-bed facility on 6.25 acres of land on upazila's Balubhara area.

Later in 2012, the hospital was upgraded to 50-bed by constructing another three-storey building with other modern facilities.

But the new building with 19-bed facility has not started functioning yet due to lack of required physicians. Moreover, five residential buildings of the hospital have been abandoned as they were dilapidated, the sources added.

Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr KHM Iftekharul Alam Khan said on an average about four hundred patients come to the outdoor unit of the hospital every day to receive treatment.

We are trying our level best to run medicare service at the health complex with limited manpower, he added.

Israfil Alam, lawmaker of Naogaon-6 (Atrai-Raninagar) constituency, said he is informed of multiple problems regarding medicare service at Raninagar Upazila Health Complex.

"Our contact with the Ministry of Health is continuing. We hope, the manpower crisis at the medical centre will be mitigated soon," Mr Alam added.

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