Where is the accountability?
Reports over the last few days of a baby declared dead and later found to be alive in Jahid Memorial Child Hospital in Faridpur town and more recently another person having died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), after allegedly being treated with unauthorised medication by a non-hospital staff are very disturbing. The case in Faridpur sounds like a scene out of a horror movie where a newborn baby was declared dead and the girl child was apparently kept in a carton box on the hospital floor. According to the doctor under whose watch the girl was declared "dead" claimed the child was born prematurely and had no pulse during examination. In the bizarre case of DMCH, the victim was administered a drug by a total outsider who had access to the patient receiving treatment in the neurology department.
What is going on in our healthcare services both in the public and private sectors? How on earth do we justify what happened to Naznin Akter's baby? Should doctors play God and declare someone dead instead of trying to save the patient? We are looking at a steady deterioration of services offered by many of medical institutions around the country. The time has come for an in-depth review of medical institutions nationwide and what goes on in there in the name of treatment. Human lives are not cheap, they are precious and authorities have to be made accountable for their actions, or lack thereof.
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