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PM asks govt doctors to stay at workplace or quit job
DHAKA, Dec 28, 2017 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the
government physicians to stay at their respective workplace to properly serve
the people, saying that otherwise they could quit job.
“When we’re appointing doctors in upazilas, many of them don’t want to stay
at their workplace. Rather they live in Dhaka somehow by managing it. If the
doctors intend to stay in Dhaka in this way they don’t need to do government
job,” she said.
“They could earn huge amount of money by doing private practice in the
capital. So it’s better for them to go home after resign from their job …
we will give fresh appointments in their place,” she added.
The prime minister said this while addressing a function on the occasion of
handing over keys of ambulances to seven government hospitals and
establishments at her office this morning.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim and State Minister for Health Zahid Maleque
Swapan spoke on the occasion.
Health Services Division Secretary Md Serajul Huq Khan delivered the welcome
address, while Director General of Health Services Abul Kalam Azad gave the
concluding speech.
Liberation War Affairs Minister A K M Mozammel Haque, Prime Minister’s
Advisor HT Imam and State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan
Chandra Chanda, PM’s Principal Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury and
Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim were present.
Sheikh Hasina also directed authorities concerned to further improve
standard of education in the medical colleges to create quality physicians in
the country.
She said the government has set up a huge number of medical colleges in the
country. “We’ve already given permission to establish medical colleges in
five cantonments and such colleges will be set up in other cantonment
gradually,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the authorities will have to monitor that what type of
treatment is being provided from these medical colleges. “They’ll have to
look into whether ‘patient-killing doctors’ or ‘patient-saving doctors’ are
being created in these medical colleges,” she said.
The prime minister said her government has set up Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib
Medical University in Dhaka, while two new medical universities — one in
Chittagong and another in Rajshahi — are also being established for ensuring
higher education for medical students and further improving healthcare
services.
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