More hospitals to be built at city gateways, says Dr Ruhal
Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque yesterday said the government would build necessary numbers of general hospitals at the main gateways of the city with a view to expanding the healthcare services to increasing population.
“Two 500-bed general hospitals in the city's Kurmitola and Khilgoan areas will start operations from June next year,” he told reporters after visiting the construction works of 500-bed Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka Cantonment.
The Kurmitola General Hospital, being established with a budget of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, will provide healthcare to both civil and military people. The revised expenditure was fixed at Tk 226.16 crore for construction of the hospital.
Referring to the government decision to build more children's hospitals beside the city, Dr Ruhal Haque said another general hospital like the Kurmitola and Khilgoan would be built in the Mirpur area.
He said the city dwellers are being deprived of taking healthcare services in balanced manner as the main public hospitals are situated in the central part of the capital due to lack of proper plan.
Besides, the patients coming from the distant places face a lot of suffering to reach the city hospitals, he said, adding that if the hospitals are built at the gateways of the city their sufferings and difficulties could be reduced.
“For this the government is putting emphasis on such places to build hospitals,” he said.
Replying to a question, he reiterated that stern action would be taken against the dodgy doctors who will remain absent from discharging their duties at the public hospitals across the country.
Director General of Bangladesh Army Medical Services Maj Gen Zafar Ukkah Chowdhury, Commandant of Armed Forces Medical College Maj Gen M Towfiqual Islam, Chief of Army Engineering Corp Maj Gen Abdul Hamid, Joint Secretaries M Abdul Jalil (administration) and Rukhsana Nasrin (Hospital) from the Health Ministry accompanied the minister.
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