Barishal Correspondent :
Huge number of children admitted to the Pediatric Ward at Barishal Sher-e- Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) of the city with sickness from cold related complications died on December 2018.
Dr. Baqir Hossain, director of the hospital acknowledging the facts said the situation now worsen more as l10 infants died at pediatric ward of SBMCH on last December 2018. That means average about 4 infants admitted at pediatric ward of the hospital died per every day.
`Around one third of the sick children admitted here suffering from cold related diseases and they came from not only upazila level hospitals, but many of them admitted from different clinics of the city and towns, said SBMCH director.
In Barishal Division, there was no hospital for children and so we demanded to establish a children hospital quickly, said Jibon Krishna Dey, one of child organiser and president of district Khelaghar’.
Dr Faizul Haque Ponir, residential physician of the pediatric ward of SBMCH, said seven infants suffering from cold related diseases like pneumonia, asthma, and bronchitis, died on Saturday.
Most of the child patients admitted here at the last moment with severe breathing difficulties and could not survive in winter season every year.
On month of December average around 200 infants received treatment from outdoor and 110 patients admitted per day at pediatric ward of the hospital although the admission capacity ward is 48 only’ he added.
Rokeya Begum, a mother came at SBMCH outdoor waiting in queue for two hours with her 6 month old baby, said her baby suffering from cold related diseases since last two days.
With a same problem, another six-month-old male baby boy was brought from Bakergonj Upazila health complex to SBMCH.
The baby was suffering breathing complications and at last we admitted him here, told Nilufar Begum, mother of the baby.
Hosneara , another mother from Baufal of Patuakhali district, said she took her two years-old daughter to the SBMCH on Friday from Patuakhali as the kid suffering from serious breathing complications.
My baby was first admitted to local upazila health complex, but later shifted to the SBMCH as her condition deteriorated, Hosnera said. The baby girl was seen occasionally wheezing under the oxygen mask put on her mouth.
Huge number of children admitted to the Pediatric Ward at Barishal Sher-e- Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) of the city with sickness from cold related complications died on December 2018.
Dr. Baqir Hossain, director of the hospital acknowledging the facts said the situation now worsen more as l10 infants died at pediatric ward of SBMCH on last December 2018. That means average about 4 infants admitted at pediatric ward of the hospital died per every day.
`Around one third of the sick children admitted here suffering from cold related diseases and they came from not only upazila level hospitals, but many of them admitted from different clinics of the city and towns, said SBMCH director.
In Barishal Division, there was no hospital for children and so we demanded to establish a children hospital quickly, said Jibon Krishna Dey, one of child organiser and president of district Khelaghar’.
Dr Faizul Haque Ponir, residential physician of the pediatric ward of SBMCH, said seven infants suffering from cold related diseases like pneumonia, asthma, and bronchitis, died on Saturday.
Most of the child patients admitted here at the last moment with severe breathing difficulties and could not survive in winter season every year.
On month of December average around 200 infants received treatment from outdoor and 110 patients admitted per day at pediatric ward of the hospital although the admission capacity ward is 48 only’ he added.
Rokeya Begum, a mother came at SBMCH outdoor waiting in queue for two hours with her 6 month old baby, said her baby suffering from cold related diseases since last two days.
With a same problem, another six-month-old male baby boy was brought from Bakergonj Upazila health complex to SBMCH.
The baby was suffering breathing complications and at last we admitted him here, told Nilufar Begum, mother of the baby.
Hosneara , another mother from Baufal of Patuakhali district, said she took her two years-old daughter to the SBMCH on Friday from Patuakhali as the kid suffering from serious breathing complications.
My baby was first admitted to local upazila health complex, but later shifted to the SBMCH as her condition deteriorated, Hosnera said. The baby girl was seen occasionally wheezing under the oxygen mask put on her mouth.
