Healthcare in the Barisal city witness a sudden slowdown after hospitals, both public and private, went on unofficial Eid holidays on Friday.
Patients at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital are facing serious trouble as most the doctors and nurses have gone on holidays.
The hospital data on Sunday show that only 105 out of 708 staff are in their workplace, including emergency ward, for the patients.
Patients complained that the hospital authorities had released a good number of patients who were not cured fully in last few days to escape the pressure.
Hospital director Abdur Rashid, however, admitted that the patients usually did not get proper attention during Eid holidays.
He also admitted the outdoor patients' suffering and said it became even difficult for them to provide quality healthcare to the indoor patients during holidays.
'We cannot deny the staff members' right to go on holidays on religious festivals,' Abdur Rashid said.
'Normally, more than 1,200 patients go under treatment in indoor wards of this 500-bed hospital each day, but today there are few more than 800,' he said while talking to New Age on Sunday.
'The manpower shortage will not affect the healthcare,' he expressed his hope.
'The private hospitals have made special but very limited arrangement than public hospitals to provide services to the patients and always try to refer the patients to us,' said the SBMCH director.
A private hospital manager Nazrul Islam said that the consultants had already stopped doing surgery and discharged all their patients.
Source : New Age
