Dealing with deficient medical care centres

Serving notice to all heath centres---big or small, urban or rural---for obtaining the required authorizations and meeting standards within a stipulated timeframe, the government can go for area-wise monitoring to know if they are complying or not followed by appropriate regulatory steps

Square Hospitals in Dhaka was on Wednesday fined by RAB where the latter found irregularities. Earlier, Apollo Hospitals, LabAid and United Hospitals were also found deficient and were fined.
 Yet these renowned hospitals have some reputation to provide standard health care to its patients, only those patients who can afford to go there, because their charges are very high compared to those of an average hospital in the country. Now the question naturally arises : when the credibility of an elite name in the health services in the country, Square Hospitals, becomes questionable, what about those many ubiquitous private hospitals and diagnostic centres where the people of limited income groups go?
The picture would certainly be one of deplorable conditions. Not only many of them would be found without any legal documents, these lesser known private health facilities also fail to provide even minimum standard of health service to patients who go there. And how could they? Manned by untrained and unregistered health professionals, these so called medical care centres are often housed in an unhygienic environment without any adequate equipment and apparatus. Many diagnostic centres are run without any registered pathologists and the quality of reports they produce falls below any medical standard.
The conditions of such rural clinics and diagnostic centres are even worse. Reportedly, technicians with some experience of working in hospitals in cities fake  as doctors or even as specialists in these rural health care centres.
Surely, there is an urgent need to raise the standard of heath service delivered by the numerous private health carecentres and diagnostic clinics scattered across the country. This calls for a thorough enquiry whether they have valid or any legal documents for running such centres and whether they have met the basic requirements for establishing such centres in the first place.  Serving notice to all heath centres---big or small, urban or rural---for not having the required authorizations and meeting standards within a stipulated timeframe, the government can go for area-wise monitoring to know if they are complying or not. The ones that fail to comply may be closed down for non compliance without showing any consideration whatsoever because at stake is human life, the most precious of human possessions.

Dealing with deficient medical care centres

Serving notice to all heath centres---big or small, urban or rural---for obtaining the required authorizations and meeting standards within a stipulated timeframe, the government can go for area-wise monitoring to know if they are complying or not followed by appropriate regulatory steps

Square Hospitals in Dhaka was on Wednesday fined by RAB where the latter found irregularities. Earlier, Apollo Hospitals, LabAid and United Hospitals were also found deficient and were fined. Yet these renowned hospitals have some reputation to provide standard health care to its patients, only those patients who can afford to go there, because their charges are very high compared to those of an average hospital in the country. Now the question naturally arises : when the credibility of an elite name in the health services in the country, Square Hospitals, becomes questionable, what about those many ubiquitous private hospitals and diagnostic centres where the people of limited income groups go? The picture would certainly be one of deplorable conditions. Not only many of them would be found without any legal documents, these lesser known private health facilities also fail to provide even minimum standard of health service to patients who go there. And how could they? Manned by untrained and unregistered health professionals, these so called medical care centres are often housed in an unhygienic environment without any adequate equipment and apparatus. Many diagnostic centres are run without any registered pathologists and the quality of reports they produce falls below any medical standard. The conditions of such rural clinics and diagnostic centres are even worse. Reportedly, technicians with some experience of working in hospitals in cities fake as doctors or even as specialists in these rural health care centres. Surely, there is an urgent need to raise the standard of heath service delivered by the numerous private health carecentres and diagnostic clinics scattered across the country. This calls for a thorough enquiry whether they have valid or any legal documents for running such centres and whether they have met the basic requirements for establishing such centres in the first place. Serving notice to all heath centres---big or small, urban or rural---for not having the required authorizations and meeting standards within a stipulated timeframe, the government can go for area-wise monitoring to know if they are complying or not. The ones that fail to comply may be closed down for non compliance without showing any consideration whatsoever because at stake is human life, the most precious of human possessions.