Dr. Shakti’s call to undiagnosed disease patients
Staff Reporter :
Dr. Shakti Ranjan Paul, a renowned Internal Medicine Specialist, is now working at a Bangkok Hospital in Thailand.
Dr. Shakti is one of the most experienced doctors practicing in International Medical Services (IMS) department at Bangkok Hospital Headquarters. He is specializing in the long term and undiagnosed illness.
Dr. Shakti is hailed from Noakhali district of Bangladesh and the lone Bangalee and Bangladeshi physician practicing in Thailand.
The renowned physician is currently visiting in Dhaka and will available till August 6.
Talking with The New Nation at his hospital office at Dhanmondi on Thursday, Dr. Shakti said patients suffer for long without identifying any disease is called undiagnosed disease.
He said numbers of patients are now suffering from undiagnosed diseases in Bangladesh and elsewhere.
The public health expert said that two main reasons behind sufferings of the number of patients from undiagnosed diseases. One of those, he said, is less attentions of the doctors to the patients.
“The blame is not only to the doctors’ end, but also a reality. The doctors used to face the pressures of huge number of patients every day. As a result, every patient does not get the proper attentions from the physician,” he said. In such a situation, many diseases remain undiagnosed, he added.
Dr. Shakti presented several case studies of Bangladeshi patients of different ages who suffered long from undiagnosed disease and finally got diagnosed in his hand.
The second reason, the doctor said, is lack of proper technology to diagnose the real problem or disease.
Dr. Shakti said most of the hospitals have lack of adequate equipment and technologies to diagnose the rare diseases.
The public health expert said that Bangkok Hospital is enriched with the state- of- the-art technologies and a team of capable doctors to diagnose rare types of diseases.
He is also available in telemedicine from Bangladesh.
Dr. Shakti has advised for getting consultation from the world-class doctors of Bangkok Hospital, without travelling from home to Thailand.
To book an appointment, contact Bangkok Hospital Office Bangladesh, Dhanmondi, Dhaka: 01951111805.
There are more two offices of the hospital in Bangladesh one is at Banani, Dhaka and the other is in Chittagong.
Dr. Shakti said, undiagnosed diseases are common, affecting number of people worldwide.
Experts said it caused high rates of morbidity and mortality.
They include rare disorders which are difficult to recognize, atypical manifestations of more common disorders, yet to be described conditions and manifestations that cannot be explained medically.
The majority which is about 80pc of undiagnosed diseases are believed to have a genetic etiology.
Undiagnosed disorders are often not amenable to the traditional diagnostic approaches and the lack of a diagnosis leads to repeated clinical consultations and laboratory testing, causing substantial personal and familial emotional and financial stress.
