Barisal Correspondent :
A 16-bed burn-unit at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital prepared to start operation from next week after 45 years of starting the hospital .
Dr. Kamrul Hasan Selim, director of the hospital, said the 16 bed unit with 8-bed for male and 8-bed for female victims would be started functioning on the ground floor of the causality and CCU building of hospital with 5 doctors and 10 nurses from the next week.
The unit would be equipped with all necessary facilities to ease the sufferings of the burnt- patients following an order from the government, the SBMCH director told.
Hospital sources said, the SBMCH surgery unit currently has eight trained doctors including one professor, two associate professors, two registrars and three assistant registrars for treatment of burn injuries and plastic surgery.
Among them Dr. M A Azad, as in-charge and Dr. Habibur Rahman, Dr. Rezaul Karim, Dr. Mahmudul Hasan and Dr. Sheikh Shah Alam, have been selected to serve on duty at the burn-unit of the hospital.
Mustafa Kamal Raju, in charge of the selected 10 nurses for burn-unit, said the selected nurses have been given special training to serve burnt patients.
He also informed that Shamsunnahar, 68, Mosharraf Mridha, 70, from Patuakhali, Zobeda Khatun, 67, from Banaripara of Barisal, sustained burn injury during taking warmness from fire and Sajib, 17, an electrician from Bakerganj of Barisal, burnt from electrification, were under treatment as burnt-patients under surgery ward on Thursday.
Sixteen people received burn injuries in Barisal after becoming victims of arson and petrol bomb attacks during the last one month.
Six of the victims died on the spot while the injured 10 others treated at SBMCH surgery unit, hospital sources said.
Dr. Habibur Rahman of SBMCH surgery unit-2 said creating separate burn-unit will decrease pressure of the surgery unit for giving more benefits for the burn injured patients of Barisal region.
This SBMC (medical college) established at Band road of the Barisal city in 1968.
The 300-bed SBMCH as the only specialized public hospital under the college started functioning on November 2, 1970 providing medical services to the patients in the greater Barisal region.
Later the numbers of beds increased to 500 However, around 1,500 patients remain admitted at the hospital on a regular day, said sources.
Hospital sources said every year around 1,000 burn injury patients treated and 250 admitted at the hospital. But doctors giving only emergency treatment referred them to Dhaka as there was no dedicated burn unit in the hospital.
