‘Quality healthcare not possible without specialist doctors’
Says health minister
It is not possible to provide quality healthcare service to people without specialist doctors, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.
"We have developed enough infrastructures, but there is a lack of doctors and nurses," Zahid Maleque said while addressing an event marking the inauguration of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Dhaka.
The minister said this a day after the government regularised a total of 2,001 doctors around 10 years since their appointment under the health directorate on an ad hoc basis. To tackle the shortage of human resources, the ministry appointed a total of 4,133 doctors in 2010-11 fiscal, who were deprived of promotion since appointment.
At yesterday's event, the minister said the government will now work on appointing new human resources in the health sector. He said there is sufficient medical equipment in the hospitals. "However, those are not repaired once they go dysfunctional. We will now concentrate on this matter."