A medical college in each district
Many workers from Bangladesh go abroad to earn a living. Most of them engage in manual labour that requires little professional or technical skills. Consequently, their earnings are also quite low. In contrast, many other countries that export manpower earn significantly higher amounts per worker because they're more technically skilled or trained. Bangladesh needs to focus on exporting such professional manpower.
Sending physicians abroad for employment is a good option. But in order for that to happen, we need more medical schools across the country. The government is also committed to providing health services in all parts of the country. But it is difficult to dispatch medical facilities to rural areas. If each district town were equipped with the facilities to train its own physicians, things would be much easier.
Medical universities may be set up at the divisional cities to allow MBBS doctors to pursue higher studies. The country only needs to invest a substantial amount of public funds to set up and operate such medical colleges and universities. The government should take up a five-year action plan to set them up in each district in phases, and later set up post-graduate level medical universities in each divisional headquarters.
Md Ashraf Hossain, Central Bashabo
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