Dhaka Bureau: Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malek, MP said, “From March 1 of this year, the doctors of government hospitals will see patients through chambers in specially prepared government hospitals outside the specified office hours. As doctors had to open chambers to see patients in various clinics or pharmacies outside the duty hours, as a result of this special facility of the government, specialist doctors can see patients in chambers at their respective government workplaces. In this regard, the government has taken the opinion of all the concerned circles including the medical leaders. A high level committee is being constituted soon to initiate this work. The beginning of this great work of great public welfare for the people of the country will be from the beginning of the Great Independence March. If this work starts, millions of people of the country will be spared from the suffering of seeing doctors in various clinics and pharmacies.”
This was said by Health Minister Zahid Malek, MP, in an emergency meeting on “Institutional Practices” with various medical professional organizations related to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, along with senior authorities of the Ministry, in the meeting room of the Ministry of Health this afternoon.
In the meeting two days ago, the health minister highlighted the great news of the post-mortem organ donation of a female patient named Sara Islam who was on the way to death at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. In this context, the Health Minister said, “The survival of 4 people has been made better by the organs donated by a young woman named Sara Islam before her death. Two women named Shamima (40) and Hasina (34) received kidneys through Sara Islam’s donated kidneys, corneas and two men named Ferdous (56) and Sujan (24) received her eyes. This beautiful work has been done from our medical center of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.” In this regard, the Health Minister encouraged everyone to donate organs after death.
In the meeting, the president of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Dr. Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin, Secretary of the Department of Health Services. Mu. Anwar Hossain Howlader, Secretary of Health Education and Family Welfare Department Md. Saiful Hasan Badal, Director General of Health Directorate Professor Dr. ABM Khurshid Alam, Swachip President Professor Dr. Jamal Uddin Chowdhury, Professor Dr. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Vice-Chancellor. Sharfuddin Ahmed, Sylhet Medical University Vice-Chancellor Dr. AHM Enayet Hossain, specialist doctor and director of neuro hospital Professor Dr. Kazi Deen Mohammad, Director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital and other senior officials were present.
