National Human Rights Commission would monitor the health services across the country with support from the students to ensure doctors’ presence at workplace, the commission chairman Mizanur Rahman said on Thursday.
‘The commission will also monitor the drug supply and distribution system of the government hospitals,’ he said.
Rahman was addressing at the national conference on ‘Health Rights : Peoples’ Expectations’ organised by Shastha Andolan at the auditorium of Islamic Development Bank Bhaban in the city.
He said the government should introduce one month training at village level for medical students as part of their studies.
‘The government should introduce such a course curriculum where the medical students should stay at the villages every year for one month as part of their studies. Otherwise, he or she should not get the promotion,’ Mizanur Rahman said.
The NHRC chairman also alleged that many doctors were doing business making the ordinary people fool and they were doing this knowingly.
He cited an example that a few days back physicians at Mitford Hospital suggested a pregnant women to immediately go for caesarean operation for delivery saying that she had complicacy. But while the doctors were taking preparation for the surgery, the women delivered a baby normally.
Speaking on the occasion, Zafrullah Chowdhury, trustee of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, said constructing hospital buildings did not define the health service of a country. ‘At the same time we cannot get a total picture of the health sector through some numbers.’
He said the state-owned Essential Drugs Company Limited can produce quality drugs, but the government has no initiative to promote the company.
Rashid E Mahbub, president of Health Rights Movement, said the healthcare system in Bangladesh is based on diseases, drugs and doctors. Public health is totally ignored in our health system, he said.
The government should ensure primary and emergency medical care to all the country’s people, Mahbub added.
Makhduma Nargis, project director of community clinic project, Naila Zaman Khan, director of Shishu Bikash Kendra of Dhaka Shishu Hospital, MQK Talukder, chairman of Women and Children Health Centre and Farida Akhter, executive director of Shastha Andolan, among others, were present at the conference.
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