Help keep doctors in villages

Frustrated by the lack of doctors in villages, Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque yesterday proposed to hold discussion in parliament for ways of ensuring doctors' presence in the rural areas.
He asked MPs to give him good suggestions of ensuring presence of government appointed doctors in villages.
“It has been very difficult to keep doctors in villages even after taking punitive measures against some doctors,” Ruhal Haque said.
Some MPs said after getting posting in hospitals and clinics in rural areas, doctors get transferred the next day.
They said the way the health department is run shows that the minister cannot play his due role.
Some MPs suggested the minister issue a circular making it mandatory that no doctor can be transferred without recommendation of local MPs.
In response, Ruhal Haque said appointment of doctors should be decentralised.
He said there are a total of 5,731 posts of doctors vacant across the country.