Uninterrupted health care during Eid holidays

It is expected that next year during the Eid holidays, patients will get better health care services from the doctors on duty

It is encouraging to note that the services of all public hospitals were uninterrupted during the holidays of Eid-ul-Azha. Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said health care facilities were uninterrupted in all the public hospitals during the Eid holidays. He also thanked doctors, nurses and staff for the continuation of their duties in accordance with their roaster system on the Eid holidays.

The quality of health care has improved in the public hospitals in the country.  It is evident from the services rendered at different hospitals, including the ones in the capital city. A sense of responsibility and accountability has also come among the doctors and others concerned along with the quantitative expansion of the hospitals located in different places of the country. Deaths of patients due to negligence of doctors at hospitals would make newspaper headlines very often in the past. Recently this sort of incident is heard few and far between. Even the remote upazila health complexes of the country are equipped with necessary machines and medical equipments and doctors are hardly seen dodging their responsibility. All these give a positive picture of the country’s health sector.

Health care is one of the basic human rights for the people of this country. For maintaining this right the government has to spend a huge amount of money as subsidy every year in the health sector. The profession of doctors is not like other professions. Their service is considered emergency in the country. So, they cannot behave at their whims and caprices.  They cannot cause a breach of the sacred Hippocratic Oath they took at the beginning of their profession. They are pledge-bound to serve the ailing humanity. There is a question of medical ethics here.

 A doctor should remember that his/her professional success lies in healing a patient with compassionate care.  Over the past few years many hospitals have been established by affluent persons in different places in the country including the capital city but treatment at those hospitals is very much expensive and very few people can afford it. So, common people have to depend on the public hospitals for the treatment of diseases. The present government has done a lot for the improvement of the health sector. Much more should be done. It is expected that next year during the Eid holidays patients will get better health care services from the doctors on duty.      

Uninterrupted health care during Eid holidays

It is expected that next year during the Eid holidays, patients will get better health care services from the doctors on duty

It is encouraging to note that the services of all public hospitals were uninterrupted during the holidays of Eid-ul-Azha. Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said health care facilities were uninterrupted in all the public hospitals during the Eid holidays. He also thanked doctors, nurses and staff for the continuation of their duties in accordance with their roaster system on the Eid holidays. The quality of health care has improved in the public hospitals in the country. It is evident from the services rendered at different hospitals, including the ones in the capital city. A sense of responsibility and accountability has also come among the doctors and others concerned along with the quantitative expansion of the hospitals located in different places of the country. Deaths of patients due to negligence of doctors at hospitals would make newspaper headlines very often in the past. Recently this sort of incident is heard few and far between. Even the remote upazila health complexes of the country are equipped with necessary machines and medical equipments and doctors are hardly seen dodging their responsibility. All these give a positive picture of the countrys health sector. Health care is one of the basic human rights for the people of this country. For maintaining this right the government has to spend a huge amount of money as subsidy every year in the health sector. The profession of doctors is not like other professions. Their service is considered emergency in the country. So, they cannot behave at their whims and caprices. They cannot cause a breach of the sacred Hippocratic Oath they took at the beginning of their profession. They are pledge-bound to serve the ailing humanity. There is a question of medical ethics here. A doctor should remember that his/her professional success lies in healing a patient with compassionate care. Over the past few years many hospitals have been established by affluent persons in different places in the country including the capital city but treatment at those hospitals is very much expensive and very few people can afford it. So, common people have to depend on the public hospitals for the treatment of diseases. The present government has done a lot for the improvement of the health sector. Much more should be done. It is expected that next year during the Eid holidays patients will get better health care services from the doctors on duty.