Clinics, pathological labs pose threat to public health

Chuadanga Correspondent :

Private clinics and pathological laboratories in Chuadanga district have been rendering substandard health services to the patients.
The number of such clinics and path labs increasing day by day though the standard of service is decreasing alleged the local people and the patients.They said the clinics most of them ruse by the doctors working in different government hospitals are not following govern-met rules and ordinances, These are not following the standard of providing one doctor. Three nurses and 80 square feet of space for each ten beds, they added.
Besides, there is shortage of necessary equipment and lack of hygienic conditions in the clinics said the patients. The clinics charge abnormally high fee from the poor patients from theremote villages.