Leaders and activists voluntary organisation Rajshahi Rakkha Sangram Parishad at a meeting Saturday morning expressed their grave concern about the service catered by Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
They demanded better service, healthy environment and use of modern technology at the hospital as soon as possible.
They alleged that physicians at the medical
college hospital misbehaved with the patients and their attendants
while the doctors’ negligence has currently become intolerable.
There is not adequate number of anaesthetists at the hospital for long time and that is why surgical services at the hospital are being hampered, they said, adding that the hospital sometimes refer patients to private clinics.
They said low income people from Rajshahi and others northern districts have to suffer as they have to get surgical scurvies from private clinic at high costs.
Services of different units and wards, including emergency, pathology, neurosurgery, neuro-medicine, cardiology, gynaecology, podiatric departments of the hospital need immediate improvement, they observed.
The speakers also threatened to go for tough movement if the authorities did not take proper initiative to address the problems.
Rajshahi Rakkha Sangram Parishad convener Jamat Khan presided over the meeting at its office while Parishad adviser and Workers Party leader Liakot Ali, language move hero Mosharraf Hossain Akhunzi, Professor Fazlul Haque, advocate Antajul Haque Babu, Mohila Parishad Rajshahi district unit secretary Kalpana Ray spoke the meeting among others.
When contact, Brigadier Abdul Latif, director of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, told New Age, ‘We are trying to address the problems at the hospital but we need fund for that.’
