Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen has expressed dismay over allegations of the doctors' unavailability in rural government hospitals as such a condition could deprive marginalised citizens from their rights of healthcare services.
"Our aim is to take the government healthcare facility to the yards of common people," he said.
"But why are there so much-talked-about doctors? Wherever I go I hear that there is no doctor in the hospitals. Even lawmakers alleged that they don't find doctors in their upazilas. These are not good words."
The health minister said this while calling on young doctors at the seminar organised by the Bangladesh Society of Neurosurgeons (BSN) at Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Convention Hall in the capital on Tuesday.
He, however, admitted that doctors have various problems and difficulties in rural healthcare centres.
"But, people have to be treated. If doctors do not want to stay in upazila-level hospitals, where will the village people get good treatment," he asked.
The minister reiterated that to bring back the reputation of the medical sector, it needs good medical services for people in the remote areas.
Acknowledging difficulties in remote areas and some news stories of doctors being harassed in some incidents which created fears among doctors to go countryside, he said that he started working on what incentives can be kept for those who will go to provide medical services in remote areas.
"Go to the village and provide services. I will increase the facilities," he encouraged young doctors.
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