60 children die in a month
Lack of medicare alleged in Dinajpur hospital
Our Correspondent, Dinajpur
As many as 60 children aged between one to thirty days died in Dinajpur Sadar Hospital since January 1.Want of life saving equipment, unhygienic condition, negligence and abstention of on-duty doctors are the reasons behind the unusual rise of infants' death, hospital sources said. Lack of accommodation and late arrival of patients are also responsible for the situation, said a hospital doctor, adding that the admitted are mostly affected by viral and cold related diseases like diarrhoea and pneumonia, meningitis, birth related asphyxia, encephalitis and other birth complexities. There are only 32 beds at the children's ward in Dinajpur Sadar Hospital while the number of admission seekers is several times more. On an average, nearly 50 children have been admitted to the children's ward in the hospital since February 1. During a visit to the hospital yesterday, this correspondent found most of the under treatment children lying on the floor due to shortage of beds. The toilets were in horribly filthy. Six of the 10 posts of doctors in the children's ward have remained vacant while doctors are often found busy with private practice outside even during their duty hours, sources said.
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