Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University expanded its evening specialists’ consultation services with the addition of haematology department in the service from Saturday.
Professors and associate professors will see patient at the department from Saturday to Wednesday evening, said BSMMU vice-chancellor Pran Gopal Datta while opening the department.
The patients suffering from blood related diseases, including blood cancer- leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, anaemia, thalassemia, hemophilia, thrombosis and dengue will be treated here.
The university started evening services on October 1, 2011, first of its kind in the country, with professors and associate professors of seven departments – Medicine, Paediatricts, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Skin and Venereal Diseases, Ear, Nose and Throat, Cardiology, and Physical Medicine – attending patients everyday from 3:00pm to 6:00pm.
At present specialised consultancy services are run at 21 departments, said Datta.
The other departments are rheumatology (Tuesday and Thursday), endocrinology (Tuesday), chest disease department (Saturday and Tuesday), eye, gastroenterology, nephrology, urology, neuro-medicine, liver, psychology, surgery and orthopaedic surgery departments.
The service offers specialists’ prescription only for Tk 200, which is otherwise Tk 500 to Tk 1000 in private chambers.
The university vice-chancellor Pran Gopal Datta said they start the service to reach specialised health care to the poor patients at low cost. ‘We have attended over 93, 000 patients till February this year.
Currently BSMMU has 29 beds including four beds for the daycare patients in haematology department, among which 15 beds are non-paying bed.
However, the health rights activists said at evening outdoor, the hospital authorities are now allowed to charge more than the usual fees.
The university charges Tk 30 for its morning outdoor services.
-With New Age input
