In spite of having two state-run general hospitals and a mother and children welfare health complex in the Narayanganj city, people of the district have to move in Dhaka to take treatment.
There are shortage of many kinds of medical equipment in the hospitals as well as the deficiency of required pathological test facilities, so the patients are bound to move to Dhaka.
An orthopaedic physician told the Bangladesh Post that there is no specialized operation theatre where they can manage the orthopaedic patients if they need the surgery.
Following COVID-19 outbreak inhabitants of Narayanganj have to face the real crisis in the health sector of the district though there are two government hospitals with accommodation for four hundred patients.
Before the Corona crisis Narayanganj residents were referred to Dhaka Medical College if he or she went to Khanpur 300 bed Hospital or 100 bed General Hospital In Narayanganj. And those behaviours of the hospitals have been prevailing in this crisis moment too.
Khanpur 300 bed hospital in the time being became a shabby structure only. It was a centrally air conditioned modern hospital but being under the gripe of some evil staff headed by a third class employee who is serving as a personal assistant of the superintendent of hospital has become miserable.
No expert physician wants to stay here due to illegal control by inferior staff. As a result many posts of physicians are vacant as well as department wise efficient physicians are not available in this hospital.
The same situation was found in Narayanganj General Hospital. Few physicians of outdoor consultancy some patients till noon and then the emergency department of the hospital being seized by brokers of different private clinics.
When a patient rushed to the emergency department with any physical complications the physicians write on government slip ‘referred to DMCH or NICVD’.
Then the clinic’s brokers allured the patients and got them admitted to private clinics. When a patient with refer slip wants to move to Dhaka then the government hospital’s ambulances are not found. So a poor patient has to hire a private ambulance with a high cost. Being in these dilemmas some patients meet with ill-fate.
So the people of Narayanganj badly need a full-fledged medical college and hospital in the populous district.
