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RU medical centre in bad shape

Sunday, 14 November 2010


RU Correspondent
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Nov 13: The medical centre of Rajshahi University (RU) is gripped with multifarious problems including scarcity of medicines, lack of modern equipment and short age of doctors, ambulance, beds and fund constraints.
The RU medical centre was established in 1959 with a doctor named Mohammed Abdul Qaiyum. At that time, it had no building of its own.
At present on an average 550 to 600 patients of the university including teachers, students, officers and employees and their relatives come to the medical centre for treatment everyday.
It has only 26 doctors for around 28,000 people of the university including teachers, students, officials and their family members, while six of them have been in study leave and lien for two years now.
There are no posts of brain, dental and ENT specialists at the medical centre. Consequently the patients have to go to Rajshahi Medical College hospital (RMCH) or other clinics of the city for treatment.
Presently, it has only three ambulances, of which one is out of order and the remaining two provide services to the teachers and officers of the university. As a result the patients especially the students during emergency period suffer for treatment.

RUET admission test results out
Our Rajshahi correspondent adds: The results of first year B.Sc. Engineering admission tests of 2010-2011 session of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Tehchnology were published Friday morning.
Professor Dr. Serajul Karim Chowdhury and Professor Dr. Murtuza Ali,Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor RUET respectively declared the result of the first year admission test on RUET campus. The results have been hung at the notice board of RUET and can be found by logging into website: www.ruet.ac.bd.
The registration and admission of the succesful candidates will start from December-15, sources in RUET informed.
A total of 485 students will be enrolled for the first year B.Sc. Engineering.