Mockery with hospitals

TWO hospitals have made news lately for utterly wrong reasons. Usually a hospital would come under criticism for deficient services. Not so with Mugda General Hospital and Al-Helal specialized hospital ltd in Mirpur, the former a government healthcare facility and the latter a private one. In the government hospital at Mugda, some ruling party activists literally took over the hospital to receive the health minister with fanfare. For two days the minister was scheduled and rescheduled to visit the hospital, but did not turn up. But the patients were hindered from entering and exiting the hospital. The patients even had to take permission from the activists converging on the place. When hospital authorities were the right persons to receive him, why was it attempted to be made a public show of loyalty? When there are other venues to do so!
As for the patients of the private hospital at Mirpur, they had to suffer the ordeal of film shooting. Allegedly the cabin patients on the 8th floor of the hospital were literally stranded as film crews occupied the corridor while patients of other floors could not sleep due to loud noise till late night. Ward boys of the hospital had a field day witnessing film shooting. We would like to see the authorities more accountable and transparent in their undertakings when it comes to serving patients. Hospitals cannot be places for antics.