Noman Mosharef :
About 60 per cent people of the country are disinterested to take health care service from government hospital and medical service rather heeds to take first aid from pharmacy, unskilled local or village doctors (formally known as quack) and ayurvedic practitioners, says a survey of the government health economics unit information.
According to the survey, the reason behind this trend is financial incapability, unconsciousness as well as harassment in government hospital. This is a common scenario from village to town or city.
The objective of this aptitude is to get relieve from illness as from where they got this treatment does not matter, added the survey.
In this situation, Dr Md Nurul Amin, Director of the Health Economics Unit cautioned about the danger of taking primary health care outside the government hospital.
He said, ‘Most of the time, people are taking more medicine than they need from pharmacies, village doctors, ayurvedic professionals. The patients are taking poor quality medicine, which is increasing their physical risk.
The importance of primary health care in the Corona epidemic is now more evident than ever before. So, the government wants to bring non-formal healthcare into a framework. But it is not impossible, says Professor of Medicine and Public Health Dr Liaquat Ali.
He said, “Those involved in informal healthcare can be trained and brought under registration. We can improve our primary health care by bringing them under control.” Meanwhile, Dr. Md. Nurul Amin said, “If the government can provide free first aid, tests and medicines, mass people will go to government hospital instead of any informal health care. For this, the outpatient department of the government hospital has to be more helpful.
Bangladesh is one of the few countries in the world where medicines can be bought without a prescription. Experts called for an immediate end to this.
