Patients at Dhaka Medical College Hospital did not get proper treatment due to lack of proper monitoring and accountability, Transparency International Bangladesh said on Monday.
TIB in its report also said corruption is institutionalised at DMCH through influence in the appointment process, lifting of government medicines and taking bribe from the patients.
The report titled ‘Dhaka Medical College and Hospital : Good Governance, Challenge and Way Forward’ was made public at the auditorium of Bangladesh Institute of Administration and Management in the city.
However, experts said despite lack of facilities, the patients still have confidence in the treatment at DMCH, the tertiary level hospital.
DMCH director Mostafizur Rahman said, ‘Management is hampered at DMCH due to bureaucracy in appointment and limitation in laws.’
According to the present laws the class III staff are not transferable posts.
He said the hospital could not provide treatment up to the desired level due to lack of skilled manpower.
Khandaker M Shefaetullah, director general of directorate general of health services, said lack of adequate budget allocation for the health sector hampered the services at DMCH.
BIRDEM director Nazmun Nahar said accountability could not be ensured without making DMCH and other government organisation autonomous.
The TIB report said there is only one dormitory against every six doctors at DMCH while flats for Class III employees are four times less.
The report said patients had to pay bribe from Tk 20 to 1,000 on the basis of treatment they seek.
Rashid-e-Mahbub, former Bangladesh Medical Association president and TIB executive director Iftekharuzzaman were present at the report launching function.
-With New Age input
