SB Sujon:
Numerous unregistered clinics and diagnostic centers have been set up in the alleys of Lalmonirhat. Most of these do not have the necessary legal documents. In collusion with some unscrupulous doctors, the clinic owners have turned medical services into robbery services. For a long time, the health administration has been showing its failure to close these clinics and diagnostic centers.
The owners of these illegal clinics and diagnostic centers are some local political leaders, while some are retired medical officers and employees of government hospitals. The clinic business is going on under their umbrella and in exchange for the monthly salary taken by the health department. Wrong treatment is often done in illegal clinics. If you take a common disease, there is no end to the tests and examinations. This test and that test. There is no need for a cesarean section, but still a cesarean section is being performed. Newborn babies are being dragged out. There are also cases of limb loss and loss of life while performing cesarean section. Illegal clinics and diagnostic centers are like slaughterhouses.
According to the Health Department, apart from the clinic license, other licenses that need to be obtained include the Environment Department’s four-letter document, rent receipt, income tax return, fire service license, license for operating a pharmacy, environment license, generator license, cafeteria and laundry license, blood bank license, boiler license, commercial license, BSTI license, trademark license, deep tube well license, Atomic Energy Commission license, RCO license, medical waste management license, narcotics license, NOC from local authorities, etc.
Again, to get the clinic registered, it is necessary to have physical facilities, full-time doctors, diploma nurses, ward boys, nannies, cleaners, necessary manpower, equipment, and a healthy environment.
According to the source, in order to approve a 50-bed clinic, 4,000 square feet of space will be required, with 80 square feet per bed per patient in the ward. Along with this, there must be at least 13 rooms including OT room, post-operative room, wash room, instrument room, labor room, waiting room, reception room, office room, changing room, sterilizer room, store room. In addition, there must be separate toilets for men and women, wide stairs, generator, and elevator facilities if necessary in buildings (more than three floors). It is essential to have air-conditioned facilities in the OT room, OT tables, adequate OT lights, suction machines, anesthesia machines, diathermy machines, trays of emergency medicines, running water, oxygen, IPS facilities, general waste, sharp waste, bacterial waste, liquid waste and all types of waste management.
There should be specialist doctors, three duty doctors, six diploma-holding nurses and necessary manpower in the manpower structure. But without paying attention to these rules and regulations, clinics and diagnostic centers are being built overnight by renting houses and paying monthly fees to the health administration. Fraud is rampant in the name of medical services.
The conscious community and the common people of the district have strongly demanded that mobile courts be run in every clinic and diagnostic center and the clinics and diagnostic centers be operated under government rules and regulations.
Alauddin Al Azad, General Secretary of Bangladesh Private Hospital Clinic and Diagnostic Owners Association, said, “There are 69 clinics and diagnostic centers in Lalmonirhat district. I believe that these clinics and diagnostic centers have valid licenses. However, all clinics and diagnostic centers need to be operated according to the rules and regulations of the Directorate General of Health Services.”
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