Low-cost medicare at Birdem
With a view to providing low-cost quality health care services to the patients Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) set up a 'specialist-chamber-complex' on the Ibrahim Medical College (Birdem) campus.
From the complex people will get specialist medical tips at a low-cost. The complex would also receive blood and other samples round the clock for testing of diabetes and other diseases.
DAB leaders highlighted these facilities at a press conference at DAB office in the city yesterday.
DAB President Prof AK Azad Khan, Joint Secretary Dr Sarwar Ali, Prof Hajera Mahtab and Prof Najmun Nahar were present at the press conference.
Dr Sarwar Ali said ex-ray facilities and operation theatre would be kept open for 24 hours at the complex. A team comprising specialist doctors has already been formed to facilitate the treatment.
The fund, which would be generated from the complex would be spent for the treatment of poor patients at Birdem through cross-financing method, Dr Ali said.
Birdem would introduce one-stop service, to extend outdoor activity, emergence services, high-dependency unit and day care unit at the hospital within next six months.
Currently around three lakh diabetic patients are enrolled with Birdem outdoor unit and at least three thousand patients receive treatment from the hospital daily.
"As we are determined to provide quality services to diabetic and non-diabetic patients and extend free medical services to diabetic patients we have to manage the existing deficit through a cross-financing process from the earning of this complex," he added.
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