Emergency medicare services during Eid holidays

Public hospitals remained almost closed during Eid ul Fitr. It is learnt that indoor patients were forced released from hospitals. The reason is simple-the doctors and ancillary staff members went on Eid holidays. So the admitted patients were sent on holidays too. But unfortunately the patients could not send their disease on holidays, so they suffered. TV reports showed the plights of the patients. How troublesome it was for the poor patients to leave the hospital before Eid, and then stay home without treatment for quite a few days. The TV reports showed those patients returning to the hospital after holidaying at home with their diseases as indispensable partners. Affluent people must have visited the private hospitals and doctors. But the poor people have no choice-either die at home, or if remain alive, return after holidays. Who knows how many people died without receiving treatment during the Eid holidays?
We are pained to think how the emergency services like hospitals and doctors can be sent on holidays by discharging their patients. If the private hospitals can function normally, why can the government hospitals not? Moreover, there are many organisations which carry on normal day-to-day activities during all holidays including the the Eid holidays. The radio and TV channels, the police department, the transport workers may be mentioned in particular.
Depriving the poor patients of treatment is not only inhuman, it is like showing utter disregard to the noble duty in the name of holidays and festivals.

Bedar Uddin Mollah
Kamrangir Char, Dhaka