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Patients are being deprived of medicare facilities at the Kulaura Upazila Health Complex in Moulvibazar district mainly due to a lack of physicians and other support staff for years.
The 50-bed health complex is the only facility for treatment in the frontier upazila.
The poor and marginal people as well as labourers of about 50 tea gardens are the worst sufferers.
On the other hand, the hospital often has to provide treatment to the road accident victims as it stands on the Beanibazar-Dhaka road. Normally, over 400 patients visit the hospital everyday for treatment.
Sources informed that the old X-ray machine has gone out of order while the new one has also been lying unused due to the absence of a technician. Taking the advantage, the private centres are doing brisk business.
A meeting of the hospital management committee discussed the present situation recently and demanded the higher authority to take necessary measures on some urgent issues.
It was told that only 11 physicians against 21 posts have been working. But, three of them, including Junior Consultant, Medicine, Junior Consultant, Ortho-Surgery and Junior Consultant are deputed to other hospitals while one has been unauthorized absent. Only seven have to manage the hospital.
The vacant posts include physicians of Surgery, Gynae, Cardiology, Eye, ENT, Dental Surgeon, Pathology, etc. On the other hand, 75 out of 198 posts of class II, class III and class IV have been lying vacant for a long. Of the four cleaners, three have been working on deputation at Moulvibazar while one went on pension. Only two are at work.
The meeting demanded withdrawal of the deputation orders of the hospital's physicians and other staff for ensuring services.
The hospital was upgraded to a 50-bed complex in the late nineties.
Only due to the absence of surgeons and anesthetists, the