HealthBogura's Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital has had its beds raised twice without new staff or buildings; it held 2,534 patients on 19 September, and each outpatient doctor sees about 170 people a day.
Thirty of 119 sanctioned health and family-planning posts in Sitakunda, Chattogram, are vacant, with a shortfall of about 34 per cent among family-planning assistants; patients report shortages of doctors and medicine.
Marking the upgrade of the National ENT Institute to 250 beds, Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain also urged couples to be tested for thalassaemia before marriage.
HealthHealth minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain says every upazila health complex is to be expanded from 50 to 151 beds, with 10 dialysis machines in each district hospital and 50 in each medical college hospital.
Shykh Seraj writes that Bangladesh wasted its head start against the coronavirus and urges testing, isolation, coordinated planning and a fresh look at health spending.
