Readers’ Voice

Expansion of orthopedic medical educational

During 50 years of independence general medical treatment facilities have been expanding continuously. One after another, public medical colleges and hospitals are being established in districts where there was no medical college in the past. But in the arena of orthopedic medical education and treatment, no significant improvement in respect of quality and quantity have been achieved yet.
The Pangue (Disable) Hospital at Sher-e-Bangka Nagar, Dhaka is the only institution where orthopedic teaching is available, which is very insignificant in relation to 170 million populations. Moreover, the country men have little confidence in the quality of available orthopedic treatment now. Moneyed men go abroad for orthopedic medical treatment when required. Those who can not afford foreign treatment suffer much. Some go to unqualified indigenous so called doctors for orthopedic treatment and turn to permanently disable that is not desirable at all in independent Bangladesh.
Thousands of road accidents took place in the country every year that causes saviour injuries that needed quality orthopedic treatment. Other accidents also cause patients that need quality orthopedic medical treatment. Government will have to ensure orthopedic quality medical treatment is available and affordable to it’s citizens.
A special project may be assumed urgently to set up one modern orthopedic medical institute in each administrative division in the country. Initially, some teachers may be appointed from friendly foreign countries for imparting orthopedic medical treatment in those institutions. I would like to urge the government to take a five year project to introduce orthopedic medical education in each administrative division. It would be a milestone in the arena of medical treatment in Bangladesh that the country men desire.
 
Md Ashraf Hossain
120, Middle Bashabo, Dhaka-1214.