There is no end to the suffering of patients who come for treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. Various violations have been witnessed including providing treatment on hospital balconies and staircases, non-availability of government medicines, sending to private clinics for tests, commission trading, ambulance unions, and giving two types of test reports for the same disease using substandard machines from blacklisted contractors. . . For these reasons, patients face difficulty in obtaining appropriate treatment. The six-episode reporting series shows the suffering in the hospital. The first part highlights why patients do not have access to government medicines.
He paid Tk 300 in a CNG auto-rickshaw from his home in Dala village in Trishal to visit his son Alif Hussain’s doctor and bought a ticket for Tk 10. When I went to the medicine department doctor because of abdominal pain due to dysentery and ulcers, he prescribed me a Rostil SR capsule in the morning and evening for three months, a Jox 500 mg tablet in the morning and evening for three days, a Probio tablet in the morning and evening for 15 days, a Reb 20 mg tablet in the morning and evening for One month and one Rolit tablet is prescribed for three months at night. But the reception staff asked me to leave with only 10 omeprazole capsules from the hospital administration ward. He also said that prescription medications should be purchased from outside pharmacies. After calculating, I saw that I paid Tk 300 in an auto rickshaw and came to the hospital and got Tk 45 government medicines.’
Standing in front of the hospital’s outpatient medicine table, Abdul Batin (70), a farmer from Dhalea area in Trishal, told the Bangla Tribune. He said: After spending a lot of money, I got medicine worth Rs 45 at the government hospital. If so, where will poor farmers like me go for treatment and medicine?
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“While cutting the land field, his left big toe was cut off with a shovel,” said Nabi Hossain (55) from Dapuniya village in Mymensingh Sadar while taking medicine from the counter. “So, after checking with the doctor at the hospital’s surgery department, he prescribed cefixime 400 times in the morning and evening for Seven days, Zolvin three times daily for seven days, Cyclo once in the morning and evening for a month, and Nevicon syrup three times daily for 15 days One day, after going to the medicine counter at the hospital, only 10 omeprazole capsules were dispensed and he was advised to buy the rest of the medicine from abroad.
Nabi Hossain told Bangla Tribune that after seeing a doctor at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, all medicines became available for free. “I spent Rs 100 from Dapunya and got medicine worth Rs 45 from the government hospital. If I had known that, I would not have come to the hospital,” Nabi Hossain told Bangla Tribune.
Rameza Begum (60 years old), from the Khagdhar area of Saddar, said, “I saw a doctor in the medical department outside the hospital suffering from severe pain due to an ulcer problem for several days. Doctors and nurses are advised to buy any medication prescribed by the doctor from an outside pharmacy instead of giving it from the hospital counter.” After spending the money with his daughter, Elam only went to the doctor and prescribed medicine and the government did not provide any medicine from the hospital. If this was the case, where would we poor and helpless people go?
Patients who are admitted not only outside but also in the inpatient wards of the hospital said that some medicines are being administered from the hospital. But most medicines must be purchased from abroad. Medicines are especially expensive.
Sujan Miya (60), a farmer from Bara Katori village in Netrakona Sadar, was admitted to the ICU ward of the hospital on November 20 due to heart and kidney problems. “Although some medicines were provided from the hospital, expensive injections had to be bought from outside,” said Mamoon Hossain, son-in-law of Sujan’s daughter Mia. I previously learned that all government medicines are available if you are hospitalized. But now I see that all medicines should be bought from abroad and given to patients.
Hazrat Ali (60), a farmer from Mahmudpur in Phulpur, was admitted to the ICU ward on November 16 due to heart problems. He said: I took some medicine from the hospital. But most medicines had to be purchased from external pharmacies. The doctors and nurses said the hospital did not have much medicine, so they could not give it to them. We have to buy these medicines from abroad.
Taslima Akhtar, 25, daughter of Hasan Ali, from Boilur Baskri village in Trishal, was seriously injured after neighbors hit her on the head over a family land dispute. He was admitted to Ward No. 315 of the hospital’s Neurosurgery Department on November 2. He had to undergo head surgery on November 18. “The cost of the operation was 3,000 pounds, and the nurse had to pay 5,000 taka to buy the machine,” said Sabuj Mia, Taslima’s brother. “On the day of the operation, medicines worth 3,500 rupees had to be bought from an outside pharmacy. Some injections still had to be bought from outside.” If these medicines were available from the hospital it would have been easier for poor patients to get treatment.
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Chief Store Officer at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital Dr. “I can’t say that now,” Jantu Sarkar told Bangla Tribune. However, the government provides more than 100 types of medicines for free. We get more or less allocated every month. But since the allocated medicines are less than the patients, it cannot be provided to the patients as expected. If the allocations had been increased, the medicine could have been given to all patients for free.
If you want to know about it, says Assistant Hospital Director (Administration) Dr. “More than 3,000 patients are admitted to this 1,000-bed hospital every day. More than 3,000 patients are being treated daily at the outpatient facility. Due to the excess number of patients, the medicine cannot be administered as ordered,” Mohammad Moinuddin told Bangla Tribune. Therefore, medicines provided by the government are distributed to patients.