No doctor promoted without political link
Without having political affiliation, doctors are not promoted to higher posts in Bangladesh, said Dr Shahaduz Zaman yesterday.
As a result, physicians are politically divided, said the anthropologist and litterateur, adding that consequently, the country's hospitals turn into centres of politics.
So, the problems prevailing at the hospitals are the reflection of political, social and economical problems, he said.
That way, each hospital is a reflection of the society, he added.
Dr Zaman was addressing the 25th monthly public lecture titled “A hospital in the eyes of an anthropologist and a writer”.
Reading Club Trust and Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation organised the programme at RC Majumdar Auditorium of Dhaka University.
In his one-hour lecture, Dr Zaman, a faculty of University of Sussex in the UK, said there is "no practice" of conversation between doctors and patients in Bangladesh.
In this regard, a class-IV employee of the respective hospitals work as a middleman, he said.
This lack of communication leads patients towards uncertainty, said Zaman.
He suggested introducing a course of communication in medical curriculum. Such a course will reduce the gap between doctors and patients, he said.
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