A 500-bed general hospital at Khilgaon in the capital will be opened on Friday without any inpatient and emergency department.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is expected to open the hospital, the project director of the 500-bed general hospital, M Abdul Basit, told New Age on Tuesday.Initially the outpatient department would start at the hospital with the staff appointed on deputation, he said. ‘No inpatients or emergency department would be available now.’
The hospital was built under a three-year project taken up in 2005 to provide healthcare to the people living in the Khilgaon, Basabo, Jatrabari and Sayedabad area.
Two senior consultants, 10 junior consultants and three medical officers have been deputed to the hospital, said the health directorate officials.
Apart from this, four nurses, two technologists and two office assistants would also be deputed to the hospital.
Health directorate sources said there was a huge lobbying by people from outside the capital to get a post in the hospital.
Basit said the doctors would be working on a temporary basis and their jobs would be regularised soon after the posts would be created.
About 30 doctors would be deputed to the hospital, the DGHS officials said.
‘We submitted an organogram of 650 staff to the secretary committee, which was yet to get clearance though the committee approved the posts,’ Basit said.
He said it would be tough to run the inpatient department with the limited staff.
Moreover, the hospital is yet to get gas connection, he added. ‘Without gas connection, the inpatient department cannot start. And for this reason, the emergency department also cannot start now.’
-With New Age input
