Khulna Medical College
Recently, I wrote a letter on medical education and now I feel my assumptions were very much right, after reading the news of present deplorable status of the Khulna Medical College. Insufficient teaching staff as well as lack of adequate infrastructure and appropriate educational facilities are creating impediments in imparting proper medical education to the students, which are probably most common to all newly established medical colleges except Dinajpur and Bogra that got favourable treatment from the immediate past government.
It is clear that Khulna was neglected by the last two consecutive governments and even deprived of its legitimate developmental plans and activities.
Khulna is a city of over 1.5 million inhabitants, but unfortunately none of past two consecutive governments paid any attention to its proper development. I don't understand why the medical college has not been turned into a 500-bed medical collage till now, which is one of the basis requirements to have proper education of the students.
The specialized 200-bed hospital has been completed half-heartedly with inadequate financial support without executing its original plan, so far I learnt from newspapers.
Proper medical and health care is one of the basic rights of the citizens.
I would like to make an appeal to this non- political government to review the present educational status of all existing public medical colleges and other higher educational institutions and ensure consistent education policies at all levels with proper development of infrastructure and facilities.
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