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Says HR body boss

28 September 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

The poor are not getting required treatment facilities in the government hospitals, as the allotted funds are not spent properly and being gobbled up by some corrupt people, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday. He shared his observation with journalists after visiting Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital yesterday. To his utter disappointment, Prof Mizanur said such mismanagement and dirty atmosphere in a government medical college hospital is just unwanted and unthinkable. The ministry concerned as well as the hospital authority should see why the patients are deprived of proper treatment, he said. Amid financial constraint the government allocates funds for the purpose, which should be spent properly, he added. The poor only have to turn out to the government hospitals while the well-off people can easily manage at private hospitals, said the NHRC chief, who was informed of keeping patients on floors when a number of beds were vacant. He also observed supply of poor quality food and medicine in several wards. Prof Mizanur also visited the Sylhet Government Pilot Girls High School and the government orphanage.