Health sector: Much needs to be improved

A World Bank (WB) report says that 60 per cent of the Bangladeshis are deprived of basic healthcare. It also says malnutrition and death rates are very high among Bangladeshi women during childbirth. Two thirds of new-born babies weigh less than what they should be at their birth time.
After forty years of independence, the health sector of our country has improved much less than it should have been. Whenever the common people go to see any doctor for treatment, the first things they get a list of tests which are to be carried out at the doctor's designated diagnostic centres. It is a business from which doctor receive a hefty commission. Well-known doctors are too busy to devote adequate time to examine, or attend upon, a patient. Now we are hearing the news of fake doctors being found in the country. A few days back, it was found that a renowned hospital appointed a doctor who had a fake degree!
I must admire the man's intelligence and audacity, who have pretended to be a doctor for such a long time and have fooled so many!
We also see in the name of treatment, imposters claim themselves to cure every incurable disease of the world and trick the common people in broad daylight. I think it is high time for the government to take strict actions to stop all such irregularities and bring some discipline in the health sector so that people of our country get some respite from such fraudulent practices.
Mohammed Sohel Hara
Shahajadpur, Dhaka