The government would take action for medical equipment at its hospitals remaining unused or out of order for long, the health minister, AFM Ruhal Haque, said Tuesday.
Handing over medical equipment to district and upazila based hospitals at Central Medical Stores Depot in the capital, he said more often medical equipment were deliberately rendered out of service by technicians or other hospital personnel out of unholy motives.
He asked civil surgeons as well as doctors serving government hospitals at districts and upazilas to ensure proper maintenance and monitoring proper utilisation of surgical instruments and portable x-ray machines to be given to the hospitals.
'It's your duty to maintain the equipment,' he told the civil surgeons and the doctors serving the hospitals at districts and the upazila helath complexes.
'I will visit after six months to see the real picture on the ground,' he told them.
The hospital administrations at the districts and upazilas, he said, usually ask for costly equipment valued between Tk 20 lakh to Tk two crore, but they nevr ask for ECG machines or microscopes they need.
He said usually the pathological laboratories are the weakest departments at upazila health complexes.
The director general of health service, Khandaker M Shefayetullah, said there would be no scope whatsoever for the hospitals at the districts and the upazila health complexes to say that they do not have the manpower to run the machines, after completion of appointment of medical assistants and health technologists in two weeks.
Source: New Age
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