Medical education in Bangladesh

Patients go to India, Bangkok, Singapore and even to the USA for better treatment depending on their financial capability. The tendency of the patients going abroad for medical treatment reflects the failure of overall health management in the country. Sophisticated medical equipment often remain out of order due to lack of knowledge of doctors and nurses. Lack of confidence in the local diagnostic centres, high prices of medicines and administrative weakness compel patients to go abroad.
Some so-called doctors have been cheating even the heart patients by promising them to remove their heart block without doing any surgery. Such cheats are robbing the patients by charging them a large amount of money, and in some cases patients die due to wrong treatment. There is no alternative to setting up world class medical education centres in the country to overcome these maladies. India has been establishing Royal College centres in different states. Nepal also has such centres. But Bangladesh is lagging behind.
Post Graduate Doctors Association (PGDA) has opened a centre in Bangladesh in 2009 which can award MRCP degree equivalent to world class degrees conferred in the UK. The Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has welcomed the move. I urge all concerned to come forward to open such centres capable of taking examinations of MRCOG in Gynaecology, MRCS in surgery, MFDS, MRCOPTH, etc. equivalent to USMLE Physical Center, CANADIAN Rex, and Australian Registration Examination.