ICUs without doctors
It is a matter of sorrow that the Intensive Care Units (ICU) of the public hospitals have been running with shortage of manpower for years. In ICUs patients are admitted with severe and life-threatening illnesses and injuries that require constant and close monitoring. But there are no doctors and staff solely designated for ICUs of the public hospitals. Doctors, nurses and other staff are borrowed from other departments of the hospitals to keep the ICUs running. This in many cases creates problems because doctors of other wards have to come to the ICU either after performing duties in their own wards or leaving their patients unattended. The attention of the authorities has been drawn several times in this regard but to no avail.
The health ministry must do something in this regard because people's lives matter.
Jahanara Begum
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