Staff Reporter :
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said that at least 20 per cent doctors are found absent at their workplaces.
“Despite taking different measures, the ministry could not be ensured the presence of 20 per cent doctors at their workplaces,” said the minister at a press conference at his office in the secretariat.
The minister said, however, the attendance rate of doctors has been increasing but it could not be made 100 per cent yet.
The minister arranged the press conference to inform about the progress of his 100-day target in the ministry.
Zahid Maleque said that earlier the rate of doctors’ presence was merely 40 per cent and it now reached near about 80 per cent.
“We could not ensure attendance of all doctors, which is unexpected.
We are trying to find out the errant doctors,’ he said.
The minister said the government is very keen to solve the shortages of doctors.
In this view, he added, the government has recruited 4,792 new doctors recently and they would help resolve the shortage of doctors in rural areas.
Zahid Maleque said that other targets were mostly achieved.
Among the targets, the work for upgrading Dhaka Medical College and Hospital to a 5,000-bed hospital from 2600-bed has been started and the work would be finished in four years.
Besides, another target of setting up a cancer hospital and a kidney hospital in every division is awaiting approval from the executive committee of National Economic Council, he said.
The specialized cancer and kidney hospitals would be established in three to four years, the minister said.
State minister for Health Murad Hasan, Health Secretary Asadul Islam and Directorate General of Health Services Director General Abul Kalam Azad were present.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said that at least 20 per cent doctors are found absent at their workplaces.
“Despite taking different measures, the ministry could not be ensured the presence of 20 per cent doctors at their workplaces,” said the minister at a press conference at his office in the secretariat.
The minister said, however, the attendance rate of doctors has been increasing but it could not be made 100 per cent yet.
The minister arranged the press conference to inform about the progress of his 100-day target in the ministry.
Zahid Maleque said that earlier the rate of doctors’ presence was merely 40 per cent and it now reached near about 80 per cent.
“We could not ensure attendance of all doctors, which is unexpected.
We are trying to find out the errant doctors,’ he said.
The minister said the government is very keen to solve the shortages of doctors.
In this view, he added, the government has recruited 4,792 new doctors recently and they would help resolve the shortage of doctors in rural areas.
Zahid Maleque said that other targets were mostly achieved.
Among the targets, the work for upgrading Dhaka Medical College and Hospital to a 5,000-bed hospital from 2600-bed has been started and the work would be finished in four years.
Besides, another target of setting up a cancer hospital and a kidney hospital in every division is awaiting approval from the executive committee of National Economic Council, he said.
The specialized cancer and kidney hospitals would be established in three to four years, the minister said.
State minister for Health Murad Hasan, Health Secretary Asadul Islam and Directorate General of Health Services Director General Abul Kalam Azad were present.
