Hassles In Doctors’ Appointment
It has been difficult to get appointment of a physician we need at suitable time. We do not get the response from the PBX when we need an appointment urgently. What we receive is, “The number you have dialed is busy now. Call after some time.” It is repeated many times which is but torturing the phone caller’s patience.
On Tuesday I was dialing the PBX number of a busy hospital repeatedly at Motijheel, but no connection was given. Hospital is for people, who pay the cost as charged by the accounts section. So, we want city’s all the hospital managements to be kind and polite, not shylock.
Khurshida Haque
Dhaka
Irrational Use Of Antibiotics!
Antibiotics, the most effective medicine to fight various bacteria, have been losing their effectiveness against the germs due to random, irrational and indiscriminate use. It is alarming that different bacteria have already developed resistance to most life-saving antibiotics. Now, the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is posing a bigger threat than any other time in the country. A Surveillance Study shows that 17 antibiotics are losing their efficacy against the 10 types of illnesses caused by bacterial infection. In such a rigid reality, the country’s health sector-experts fear, in future, we will have been left with only three drugs to fight bacterial diseases.
By the way, availability of genuine and high-quality antimicrobial medicines, increase of laboratory capacity and proper drug monitoring and surveillance have to be ensured by the concerned authorities.
W. A. Khan
Sadar Narsingdi
