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May
20, 2000
Feni,
May 19 (UNB) – The Feni Sadar Hospital has been upgraded to a modern
sanatorium, but unfortunately it has little arrangement to provide
modern medical services to its patients.
A
visit by the UNB correspondent to the hospital showed that it has been
reeling under numerous problems apart from its acute accommodation
crisis.
Although
several hundreds patients from far-flung areas of the district visit
the 100-bed hospital, it has no arrangements for ECG, Ultra sonogram,
X-ray and blood tests.
Its
accommodation crisis has reached such a stage 150 patients on an
average lay bed on its floor everyday. One may wonder hearing that
there are only six cabins in the hospitals against its minimum
requirement of 25.
That
is not the end of it. An X-ray machine was recently installed in the
hospital, but there is no radiologist in it to write reports. So, the
X-ray films have to be sent to Comilla Sadar Hospital, 60 kms away
from the town, to get the job done.
There
are a lot of instances that many complicated operations were done in
the hospital in candlelight due to power outages.
When
asked a Medical Officer of the hospital said a generator was installed
here a year back at a cost of Tk 9 lakh, but it could not yet be
brought under operation for lack of allocation for its fuel. It needs
17 liters of fuel an hour.
The
hospital has got only two ambulances, which mainly carry
the accident patients from nearby Dhaka-Chittagong highway,
Feni-Noakhali, Feni-Parshuram-Chhagalnaiya roads where on an average
2-3 mishaps take place everyday. As a result, the other patients can
hardly avail of its ambulance facility.
Stealing
of patients’ belongings by a section of local youths from the
hospital is another problem. There have been allegations that some
youths always disturb nurses of the hospital and the female attendants
of patients.
According
to another source, equipment, including an ECG machine, worth about Tk
2 lakh was stolen from the hospital store recently.
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