bdnews24.com :
The government is halting COVID-19 services in 12 hospitals to cut costs with more than 78 percent of the beds in the facilities dedicated for coronavirus treatment remaining empty amid the outbreak.
As many as 11,165 beds out of 14,275 in the COVID-19 hospitals were without patient on Wednesday. The rate was a little over 68 percent by the end of June.
The Directorate General of Health Services in a letter dated Aug 27 told Health Secretary Md Abdul Mannan that the COVID-19 services at the 12 hospitals need to be discontinued as the number of patients in the facilities was dropping.
The hospitals include five in Dhaka, six in Chattogram and one in Sylhet.
They are Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital, Dhaka Mohanagar Hospital, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Lalkuthi Hospital and Bashundhara COVID-19 Hospital in Dhaka; BITIT, Holy Crescent Hospital, Railway Hospital, Bangabandhu Memorial Hospital, Bhatiari Field Hospital and
The government is halting COVID-19 services in 12 hospitals to cut costs with more than 78 percent of the beds in the facilities dedicated for coronavirus treatment remaining empty amid the outbreak.
As many as 11,165 beds out of 14,275 in the COVID-19 hospitals were without patient on Wednesday. The rate was a little over 68 percent by the end of June.
The Directorate General of Health Services in a letter dated Aug 27 told Health Secretary Md Abdul Mannan that the COVID-19 services at the 12 hospitals need to be discontinued as the number of patients in the facilities was dropping.
The hospitals include five in Dhaka, six in Chattogram and one in Sylhet.
They are Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital, Dhaka Mohanagar Hospital, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Lalkuthi Hospital and Bashundhara COVID-19 Hospital in Dhaka; BITIT, Holy Crescent Hospital, Railway Hospital, Bangabandhu Memorial Hospital, Bhatiari Field Hospital and
Corona Isolation Centre in Chattogram; and MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in Sylhet.
The government had cancelled the contract with Dhaka’s Holy Family Hospital while it has ordered an end to the services at Lalkuthi Hospital and Dhaka Mohanagar Hospital and partial closure of Bashundhara COVID-19 Hospital on Wednesday.
The government signed contracts with different hospitals for the treatment of COVID-19 patients after the outbreak began in Bangladesh in March. Though the government is paying the cost of treatment in these facilities, the number of patients has been very low.
“The equipment and staffing in these hospitals have remained unused,” said Professor ABM Khurshid Alam, the director general of health services.
