Number of patients falls
Number of patients at M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital (MARMCH) in Dinajpur is showing a downward trend over the past few days.
On March 18, number of patients admitted at the hospital was 695, while on March 21, it dropped to 535. The figure was 778 on March 1.
At the outpatient services, 1,065 were given treatment on March 18 and the figure came down to 718 on March 21.
Jahangir Alam, an officer at MARMCH statistics department, said the igures are n the decline.
A number of attendants of former patients of the hospital alleged that they had left the hospital due to poor services caused by poor attendance of majority of doctors, nurses and staffers of the hospital.
Mother of a patient seeking anonymity said she left the paediatric ward of the hospital with her child last Wednesday after she had waited all day for a doctor to see her child the day before.
She also said although several intern doctors had assured her of a doctor's visit to the ward, no doctor showed up before she left.
During a visit to MARMCH yesterday, this correspondent found only a handful of doctors at the hospital. Whereas, according to fingerprint attendance records, 71 doctors of the hospital had recorded attendance on the day.
While the health ministry had cancelled leaves of doctors at government hospitals, MARMCH Director Dr Nirmal Chandra Das was said to have been on leave.
Admitting the fall in patient numbers both at outpatient and inpatient services at MARMCH, Dr Mozahidul Islam, acting director, however, denied the allegation of doctors' lax attendance.
Meanwhile, shared entry of the newly set up Corona Isolation Unit of MARMCH has raised concerns among locals.
Built beside Dinajpur-Gobindaganj regional highway, the access road to the entrance of the facility is shared with a public toilet and a motorcycle workshop.
M Iqbalur Rahim, lawmaker of Dinajpur-3 and Whip of the parliament, inaugurated the Corona Isolation Unit on March 14.
Locals said hundreds of people use the public toilet and fix their vehicles at the workshop every day and the common entry to the isolation unit leaves room for virus contamination.
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