SBMCH Docs, Staff Form Human Chain
Improved service, modern equipment demanded
Doctors, nurses, students and staff of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital form a human chain on the campus yesterday demanding arrangement of modern equipment and appointment of sufficient manpower to ensure quality service at the region's largest medical service provider organisation.Photo: STAR
Doctors, nurses, medical and nursing students and staff of Barisal Sher-e- Bangla Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH) yesterday formed a human chain on the campus demanding improvement of service, work environment and arrangement of modern medical equipment. Barisal City Corporation Mayor Shawkat Hossain Hiron, medical college Principal Prof Dr Abrar Ahmed, hospital Director Dr Abdur Rashid, among others, participated in the human chain programme organised by SBMCH Management Committee from 1:30-2:00pm. More than 80 percent equipment installed in the hospital for diagnosis and treatment of diseases are old-modelled and most of them have remained out of order for long, said SBMCH sources. The equipment includes the ones used for CT scan, MRI, cobalt X-ray, digital X-ray, normal X-ray, ultrasonogram, ECG, Doppler echocardiogram, incubator, safe blood transfusion and others. Seven of the nine R-ray machines have remained out of order for over a year, said a hospital official. Services of different units and wards of outdoor and indoor including emergency, pathology, neuro-surgery, neuro medicine, cardiology, gynaecology and paediatric departments of the hospital need immediate development through providing modern equipment and appointment of experienced technicians, said organisers of the human chain. The hospital is suffering from acute crisis of manpower, especially third and fourth class employees, and it affects service, environment and discipline in the largest public sector health service providing institution in the region, they added. Hospital Director Dr Abdur Rashid said at least Tk 3 crore is needed to make the emergency machinery functional. Meanwhile, sources alleged that a section of technicians of SBMCH with the connivance of some private diagnostic centres made the equipment non-functional to divert patients.
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