Vascular Anomaly Treatment, Research Centre opened in city
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Kamrun Nahar
The first Vascular Anomaly Treatment and Research Centre of South Asia is set to start providing service at Care Hospital in Dhaka after it was inaugurated by Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on February, 19 last.
"It will be a non-profit organisation which will operate in collaboration with the world-famous Vascular Anomalies Centre of Childrens' Hospital Boston at Harvard Medical School," said Dr Parveen Fatima, managing director of Care Hospital at Mohammadpur in city.
Primarily 20 beds of the 150-bed hospital will be devoted for the vascular anomaly centre with one operation room where patients will get a follow-up once in a week.
The centre is unique in South Asia, said Dr Fatima.
Vascular anomalies are defects of blood vessels in children and usually grow and appear on the newborn's faces and necks and can be severely disfiguring and can interfere with their disabilities to see, smell, eat and breathe. The most common congenital anomaly is vascular anomaly in children, say specialists.
"As there is no exact figure of patients, unofficial data show that 03 million people affected with vascular anomaly-related disabilities need to take treatment in Bangladesh", said Dr Ruhul Abid at a recent symposium and workshop on Vascular Anomalies in Children of Bangladesh at Bangabandhu International Conference centre in the city.
He said most of the persons affected with vascular anomaly related disabilities remain untreated due to lack of treatment facilities, unfavourable socio-economic conditions and public awareness about this curable disease.
As these diseases are either neglected or mishandled female patients suffer from social problems like marriage-related problems often compelling parents to offer dowry or are treated like family burden and male patients suffer from social stigma and at work.
"About 90 per cent of these patients do not get any medical treatment during their lifetime. Treatment of child patients requires long-term follow-up with proper storage of their diagnostic and treatment data," said Dr Abid.
He said need of a devoted centre or clinic for these patients is greatly felt in the country with proper treatment facilities involving group of clinicians or multidisciplinary approach.
"The patients with vascular anomaly related disabilities need paediatrician, surgeon and radiologist etc", he added.
Initially Dr Parveen Fatima, Shafiqul Hoque, Mahbubur Rahman with some other doctors will look after the centre along with some expatriate and foreign specialists on the disease who will visit the centre and give treatment to the patients.
There will be academic, instrumental (laser, radiofrequency ablation, fluoroscopy), technical and training support for 2-4 Bangladeshi physicians every year.
The first Vascular Anomaly Treatment and Research Centre of South Asia is set to start providing service at Care Hospital in Dhaka after it was inaugurated by Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on February, 19 last.
"It will be a non-profit organisation which will operate in collaboration with the world-famous Vascular Anomalies Centre of Childrens' Hospital Boston at Harvard Medical School," said Dr Parveen Fatima, managing director of Care Hospital at Mohammadpur in city.
Primarily 20 beds of the 150-bed hospital will be devoted for the vascular anomaly centre with one operation room where patients will get a follow-up once in a week.
The centre is unique in South Asia, said Dr Fatima.
Vascular anomalies are defects of blood vessels in children and usually grow and appear on the newborn's faces and necks and can be severely disfiguring and can interfere with their disabilities to see, smell, eat and breathe. The most common congenital anomaly is vascular anomaly in children, say specialists.
"As there is no exact figure of patients, unofficial data show that 03 million people affected with vascular anomaly-related disabilities need to take treatment in Bangladesh", said Dr Ruhul Abid at a recent symposium and workshop on Vascular Anomalies in Children of Bangladesh at Bangabandhu International Conference centre in the city.
He said most of the persons affected with vascular anomaly related disabilities remain untreated due to lack of treatment facilities, unfavourable socio-economic conditions and public awareness about this curable disease.
As these diseases are either neglected or mishandled female patients suffer from social problems like marriage-related problems often compelling parents to offer dowry or are treated like family burden and male patients suffer from social stigma and at work.
"About 90 per cent of these patients do not get any medical treatment during their lifetime. Treatment of child patients requires long-term follow-up with proper storage of their diagnostic and treatment data," said Dr Abid.
He said need of a devoted centre or clinic for these patients is greatly felt in the country with proper treatment facilities involving group of clinicians or multidisciplinary approach.
"The patients with vascular anomaly related disabilities need paediatrician, surgeon and radiologist etc", he added.
Initially Dr Parveen Fatima, Shafiqul Hoque, Mahbubur Rahman with some other doctors will look after the centre along with some expatriate and foreign specialists on the disease who will visit the centre and give treatment to the patients.
There will be academic, instrumental (laser, radiofrequency ablation, fluoroscopy), technical and training support for 2-4 Bangladeshi physicians every year.