Create skilled manpower for accurate diagnosis of diseases

Putting emphasis on providing better services to the patients, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed on Saturday the authorities concerned to create skilled manpower for operating diagnostic machines properly, reports BSS.
"We some time see that a big mistake is made while diagnosing the patients. Though the equipment is developed, there is a lack of skilled manpower to run these machines," she said while inaugurating the National Institute of Advanced Nursing Education and Research (NIANER) at Mugda in the capital.
Sheikh Hasina said there is a necessity to create skilled manpower to operate the modern machines for conducting accurate diagnosis of the patients.
"Take initiatives and tell us that what steps we will have to take. We will provide all supports that are necessary...there will be no problem," she assured.
The prime minister said when a person falls sick, he or she has to go to Singapore, Thailand or India. "If those countries can provide better treatment, why we cannot...this question is raised repeatedly in my mind and the issue will have to be addressed," she said.
"We will have to provide quality health services to the people and earn that capability and expertise," she added.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, State Minister for Health Zahid Malek, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Textiles and Jute Saber Hossain Chowdhury,
KOICA Vice-President Kyunghoon Sul, Director General of South Asia and Pacific Affairs Bureau of KOICA Yo Young King spoke on the occasion. Secretary of the Health Services Division under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Md Sirajul Haque Khan delivered the welcome address. The prime minister called for improving medical waste management system asking the authorities concerned, particularly private hospitals, to give attention to this end.
Acknowledging the lack of doctors and nurses in comparison to the patients in the country, Sheikh Hasina urged doctors to have patience while providing treatment to the people.
In this connection, she reminded the physicians and nurses that the attitude of giving services to the people is the biggest matter. "A patient can be cured a half if he or she gets proper behaviour from the doctors and nurses, and their sincerity and responsibility are very important to this end," she said.
Sheikh Hasina suggested the nurses to uphold their ideology through their personal and professional behaviour alongside providing better services. The prime minister expressed her belief that the nursing education and the quality of services in Bangladesh will be improved at the international level through the institute.
Sheikh Hasina recalled that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman incorporated food, clothes, housing, education and medicare in the article 15 of the country's Constitution to ensure the five fundamental rights of the people.
Following his ideals, she said, the present government implemented massive programmes in last nine years for the development of the health sector.