Sadly, the quality and standard of our public health sector leaves much to be desired, and that includes the availability of doctors at their stations. Those seeking service from public hospitals find themselves subject to much harassment, and sometimes have to resort to giving bribes to employees -- in fact, the ACC caught an employee red-handed in the course of the drive. It is the sorry state of our public health care which forces people to go to private hospitals or even seek expensive medical treatment in foreign shores. “First, do no harm,” says the Hippocratic Oath, and it seems that doctors are failing to live by those words, and giving our public hospitals a bad name. It is time for the government to get tough on public officials in health care who turn their back on their duty.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 22, 2019 17:15 UTC