Only 46 docs for 12 lakh people of Pirojpur
96 posts out of 142 vacant in Sadar Hospital
Treatment of the patients in the government hospitals in the district is being hampered seriously due to acute shortage of physicians.
Sources said posts of 96 physicians out of 142 are lying vacant in Sadar hospital and six health complexes in the district.
Fourty-six doctors are struggling to manage healthcare service for about 12 lakh people in seven upazilas in the district.
On an average, one doctor is available for every 26,000 people in the district.
Official sources said Sadar hospital was upgraded to 100-bed one from a 50-bed in 2006. But it is still running with the previous staff strength.
Thirteen posts of doctors out of 22 including some senior consultants are lying vacant at the hospital now, hospital sources said.
There are no physician in anesthesia, radiology, pathology, medicine and dental departments, they said.
The upazila health complexes in the district are also facing acute shortage of doctors.
Mathbaria 50-bed upazila health complex is running with only six doctors against its 31 posts. There are no junior consultant in any department of the health complex.
Only eight doctors are running Swarupkati uapzila health complex as 22 out of 30 posts of doctors are lying vacant.
Similarly in Kaukhali upazila, 11 out of 14, in Bhandaria seven out of 15, in Nazirpur 12 out of 17 and in Zianagar 10 out of 13 posts are lying vacant.
Civil Surgeon ABM Shamsul Alam said doctors do not want to come to district town leaving the capital and divisional towns as they have little scope for private practice here.
“Though some physicians were given postings here, they managed their transfer through lobbying in upper level,” he said.
As a result, the patients are being deprived of proper treatment at the hospitals while the authorities are facing difficulties to run them due to shortage of physicians.
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