Our health minister always says, praises and justifies availability of international standard of medical treatment, services and facilities in our country and advises our people to refrain from going abroad for medical treatment and check-up and stop wasting our foreign currency. But unfortunately he fails to stop his own colleagues, ministers from doing so.

Our ministers, MPs, political leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties and high government officials, almost all of them, go abroad for medical treatment spending millions of taka. We wonder what are their sources of income.

What a contrast! Our ministers, MPs, political leaders and high govt. officials can afford going abroad for their medical treatment! But our poor patients in the country do not have the capacity even to pay the doctor's consultation fee and to purchase medicine for their treatment.

Who will take care of our poor people and patients for their health care and medical treatment if not our ministers, MPs, political leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties? Charity begins at home.