Sustain drive against providers of hazardous medical services

A long-standing countrywide drive against providers of hazardous medical services has become indispensable as innocent people are squandering their precious resources at such places often risking their lives in the process

There are services which are extremely important for the simple reason that these involve human life.  The same are the medical services and for the obvious reasons no compromise can be allowed in running them properly. It is encouraging to note that Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been carrying out a drive recently in relation to various types of organizations offering medical services in the capital city. So far, they have visited and fined some even high class private hospitals in Dhaka for noted deficiencies in some of their services. A newspaper report on Sunday highlighted that RAB fined 5 diagnostic centers in the city for using date-expired chemicals and other irregularities.
  We welcome RAB’s vigilance and only wish that its drive would be a sustainable one. Any pause in its operation will only lead to the offenders relapsing back to their unacceptable ways from a thinking that it is over. Thus, it is so important to maintain this drive for a longer period of time and throughout the country. For substandard and even unauthorized medical centers these days are considered to be numerous in the country; in varying degrees these are playing havoc with people’s lives and wasting their resources. Therefore, it is imperative to try to root out the malpractices in their entirety through untiring vigilance and law enforcement actions.
   It is shocking but a reality that there are medical centres in this country which are functioning without any authorization from the official health authorities though such approval  is a basic legal requirement  for their treating patients. According to a report, there are some 123 functioning clinics in Khulna city out of which only 32   obtained official permission to function while the rest are yet to get approval.  According to another report, there are now more than 2,000 clinics and diagnostic centers in Dhaka city but the government’s Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) gave license to only 898 of them to operate
The unauthorized medical centers   without proper operating chambers, equipment and well-qualified doctors, pathologists and technicians   are in no position to discharge proper treatment to patients.  Government must do immediately—what it should have done long ago – to stop such grave risks to people in the name of providing medical services. A long-standing countrywide drive against providers of hazardous medical services has become a must as innocent people are squandering their precious resources at such places often risking their lives in the process.

Sustain drive against providers of hazardous medical services

A long-standing countrywide drive against providers of hazardous medical services has become indispensable as innocent people are squandering their precious resources at such places often risking their lives in the process

There are services which are extremely important for the simple reason that these involve human life. The same are the medical services and for the obvious reasons no compromise can be allowed in running them properly. It is encouraging to note that Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been carrying out a drive recently in relation to various types of organizations offering medical services in the capital city. So far, they have visited and fined some even high class private hospitals in Dhaka for noted deficiencies in some of their services. A newspaper report on Sunday highlighted that RAB fined 5 diagnostic centers in the city for using date-expired chemicals and other irregularities. We welcome RABs vigilance and only wish that its drive would be a sustainable one. Any pause in its operation will only lead to the offenders relapsing back to their unacceptable ways from a thinking that it is over. Thus, it is so important to maintain this drive for a longer period of time and throughout the country. For substandard and even unauthorized medical centers these days are considered to be numerous in the country; in varying degrees these are playing havoc with peoples lives and wasting their resources. Therefore, it is imperative to try to root out the malpractices in their entirety through untiring vigilance and law enforcement actions. It is shocking but a reality that there are medical centres in this country which are functioning without any authorization from the official health authorities though such approval is a basic legal requirement for their treating patients. According to a report, there are some 123 functioning clinics in Khulna city out of which only 32 obtained official permission to function while the rest are yet to get approval. According to another report, there are now more than 2,000 clinics and diagnostic centers in Dhaka city but the governments Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) gave license to only 898 of them to operate The unauthorized medical centers without proper operating chambers, equipment and well-qualified doctors, pathologists and technicians are in no position to discharge proper treatment to patients. Government must do immediatelywhat it should have done long ago to stop such grave risks to people in the name of providing medical services. A long-standing countrywide drive against providers of hazardous medical services has become a must as innocent people are squandering their precious resources at such places often risking their lives in the process.