Our health policy
I don't know on what criteria the WHO personnel determined that the health environment in Bangladesh is now better. Somebody coming from outside knows better than us, that's very interesting indeed. I want to draw a symbolic picture and part of the spectrum. Distribution of health personnel in urban areas is not comparable to rural areas. So there is an information gap, which amounts to ''intentional lie''. Mr. CS Karim should notice that sending doctors or other health personnel to remote areas doesn't depend on good advice only. We worked in many poor and rich countries and analysed their health systems. The doctors who work in remote areas get much better financial and other benefits. Health bureaucrats of Bangladesh should not forget this fact. There is no referral system in Bangladesh health administration. Taxpayers didn't train professors for seeing 'common cold patients. The hospitals and private clinics in Bangladesh don't have standardisation, except for a few cases. Audit and accreditation systems are flawed. The WHO officials or Bangladeshi health bureaucrats should bear in mind that infant mortality rate, maternal mortality or distribution of doctors are only a few variables and don't always tell the whole truth.
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