Syed Shemul Parvez :
Uncontrolled irregularities prevail in most of the private hospitals of the capital.
Sources said, most the private hospitals have few experienced doctors, nurses, as well as officials and staff.
There are ICUs in some of the hospitals, which is, it as alleged, a source of income only. Recently some of them have been stopped due to the allegation of treatment of covid and non-covid patients in the same ICU.
Trade dominates the private hospitals freely, as seen at the Muktijoddha Tower on Ghaznabi Road in city’s Mohammadpur opposite Suhrawardy Hospital.
Half of the 15-storey building are on the signboards of various hospitals in the capital. There are at least eight private hospitals in the building. It was seen on the spot that a private hospital running an operation theater on rent.
Earlier, the Jamuna Hospital was shut down at the instructions of the Department of Health on the charge of treatment of covid and non-covid patients in the same ICU.
Most of the hospitals are without trained manpower.
A photo journalist went to take pictures, the staff of the hospitals objected.
It is alleged that in Life Care Hospital there are no trained doctors or nurses.
But surgery is still done there. Sources said, Just a nurse controls everything over there.
Prime Orthopedics and General Hospital and Diagnostic Center does not have any BMDC certified physician. Once the owner himself was arrested for giving wrong treatment. But, the treatment is going on again after a month.
The office of Remedy Care Hospital was confined in one room and ICU is on the ground floor of the building. No ordinary bed is available there.
The largest institution in the building is Dhaka Health Care Hospital. The institution was shut off for allegedly keeping patients in the ICU for business purposes.
Pike Babu, the Chairman of the Dhaka Health Care Hospital, and Anisur Rahman, the Director, were jailed in 2014 by the RAB for malpractice.
