Hold govt docs accountable
Prof Mizan urges govt
National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman yesterday urged the government to ensure accountability of doctors in state-run hospitals to reduce public suffering.
“The government has been appointing doctors on adhoc basis so that people get proper medical care.
“But it is not acceptable that you (doctors) are taking money without catering for the needs of people properly," he said.
He was addressing a seminar styled "Inhabitable environment and human rights” organised by Samajik Paribesh O Manabadhikar Bastobayan Sangstha at Jatiya Press Club in the city marking World Environment Day-2011.
Pointing at doctors whom he found had bunked off scheduled duties at Shahjadpur Upazila Health Complex in Sirajganj during a visit there on Friday, Prof Mizanur said legal action should be taken against them immediately.
“I didn't get a single doctor after waiting there for one hour. There is no cleaner and so patients clean the hospital on their own.
“There is no water supply for the past three months. Observing the mismanagement I don't find any reason to use money there.
“I asked the health minister and director general of Health Department to take legal action against those doctors,” said Mizanur.
The sangstha Chairman Lion HM Ibrahim Bhuyan chaired the session while Jatiya Party Presidium Syed Abu Hossain Babla and Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh President Manzil Murshid also spoke.
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