Indoor, outdoor services open at Dinajpur medical
Indoor and outdoor services of the Medicine Ward of long awaited 500-bed Dinajpur Medical College Hospital (DJMCH) opened yesterday for patients.
After Dinajpur-3 lawmaker Iqbalur Rahim inaugurated the functioning of Medicine Ward in the morning, several doctors led by Dr Md Khalid Hossain, head of medicine of DJMCH, provided treatment to patients.
Later Health Minister AFM Ruhul Amin in a telephone conversation with the lawmaker and doctors said DJMCH will start in full-swing within this month. Initially the hospital will start functioning with 250 beds.
DJMCH Director Dr Shamsul Alam, Dinajpur Medical College Principal Dr Hamidul Haque Khandaker, Civil Surgeon Dr Md Abdul Karim, Bangladesh Medical Association Dinajpur unit president Dr Shahidul Islam Khan, general secretary Dr Ahad Ali and Dinajpur district AL vice president Md Abdul Momin Sarker were present as special guests during the inaugural session.
Students and interns of DJMCH had been agitating for the last three months to open the hospital early.
Academic activities of Dinajpur Medical College started in 1992.
Dinajpur Public Works Department started construction of the modern hospital building in November 2004 and completed it in July 2008, although the work was scheduled to end in July 2007.
The whole process cost Tk 146 crore -- Tk 70 crore was spent for building construction, Tk 65 crore for purchase of medical accessories and the rest for other purposes.
The new hospital will include several departments including cancer, urology and radiotherapy with 17 operation theatres -- 12 for general, two for emergency, one for delivery and two others for daily services, official sources said.
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