Traffic at NCCRHD gate
Every day of the week, except Friday, thousands of patients, their attendants, medical students and on-duty physicians and other professionals and visitors who have business at the hospital and the medical college have to cross the Mirpur road on foot or by car to enter the hospital and college premises from early morning to evening. The Mirpur road in front of the hospital is always filled up with all types of speeding motor vehicles, especially the big buses which never slow down to allow the pedestrians and physicians' cars to enter the hospital and college. Every entrant to the hospital has to risk his/her life and fear damage of the vehicle in their attempts to enter. Considering the arrogance of the bus drivers and reckless driving of cars, people and physicians cross the road and enter the hospital at great risk of being run over. There is a traffic signal but all bus and car drivers disregard it.
Like all people who come to the hospital for receiving health care services, I myself as a physician working in that hospital find it extremely hazardous to enter the premises in such anarchic traffic.
The DMP has not posted any traffic policeman at this important crossing.
Through your newspaper, I'd request the DMP commissioner to give his attention to the problem I mentioned above and immediately post a traffic policeman in front of the hospital main gate to facilitate easy entry of cars to the hospital in the absence of non-functional traffic signals.
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