Our Correspondent, Barishal :
Patients of Barishal Sher E Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) alleged that Face of newborn child cannot be seen without giving tips to the hospital. They demanded that the administration should be directed by armed forces to get relief from corruption and anomalies.
Arafat Rahman, a 5th year MBBS student of Barishal Sher E Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) acknowledging the facts said if a child is born in SBMCH , then the parents cannot see the newborn’s face without satisfying the employees and staffs by giving money. Not only that brokers have to be paid at every step and a syndicate controls everyone from the directors to down for getting admission, treatment, bed.
For getting rid of this situation, an army officer should be appointed as director, he suggested.
He also said that the condition of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital was worse than ours.
There, the quality of service has changed radically after assigning a member of the army medical core forces. There are more such examples.
Therefore, thinking of the millions of service-seeking people in the southern region, an army should give a competent person to SBMCH, another MBBS 5th batch student, on condition of anonymity, said.
Earlier on Sunday (September 29) in the face of the movement of intern doctors and medical students, Barishal SBMCH director Dr.HM Saiful Islam resigned.
Since then there has been a demand among the concerned to appoint a director from the army.
On Thursday morning, posters and banners were put up in the college premises.
A section of students and intern doctors said that they are making such a demand mainly to protect the hospital from irregularities, corruption and mismanagement.
Another MBBS 5th batch student, on condition of anonymity, said that in the past days, it was seen that the doctors who served as directors were also dependent on the syndicate.
So they could not bring about the desired development of the hospital administration despite creating various irregularities and controversies as partners of those syndicates, he added.
Intern doctor Dr. Hedayet Ullah said that no one wants a repeat of the irregularities, corruption and insecurity of doctors seen in the hospital in the past days.
Since there has been remarkable development and reformation by employing army officers in various government hospitals of Bangladesh, they demand to appoint an army officer in SBMCH as well.
However, none of the senior administration involved in the management of the hospital agreed to comment on this matter.
