Midday Brief, Monday, October 14, 2019

A sign in front of the lone x-ray machine at Faridpur General Hospital reads “X-ray report is not given; only the film is given.” The machine has remained inoperative for three months due to the lack of a radiologists, resulting in patients having to pay almost three times as much to get the examination done at private diagnostic centres. The photo was taken recently. Photo: STAR/ Suzit Kumar Das