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Abul Kalam of Haluaghat in Mymensingh. He fell from the tree and broke his leg. Yesterday he came with his brother Abul Kashem from his hometown to receive treatment at the National Orthopedic Hospital (Pangu Hospital) in the capital. As usual, he lined up with his brother with a ticket from the outside counter to see the doctor. Shortly after standing up, the obstacle hit. As soon as two people arrived, they took the ticket from Abul Kashem and said, “Let’s take an X-ray of the outside clinic.” Excluding two brothers. The runners fight with them. At one point, the runners removed them from the apartment.
Not just Abul Kashem, many of those patients have to go to the hospital for the disabled for treatment, fall into the clutches of runners, lose everything and be harassed. Not only that, the brokers are talking about better treatment and in the name of treatment, there have been cases of mutilation of patients in the name of treatment. Runners rule everywhere in the hospital for the disabled. From the emergency department to the booth, the ward, the pathology department, the operating room, and the outdoor department, the runners union is in control. Without money, no patient receives even the minimum of service from them. Doctors are often unable to do anything about intermediaries. Apart from this, there is a commission to divide patients into private clinics for better treatment. As a result, the National Orthopedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institution (Pangu Hospital) has become hostage to the violence of the corridors. And the bosses of these corridors are some dishonest doctors and officials-employees of the hospital for the disabled.
A mobile RAB-2 court arrested 11 gang members yesterday in a raid on Pangu Hospital. The RAB executive magistrate sentenced the detainees to six months in prison. The corridors used to lure patients coming for treatment from Dhaka and out of Dhaka by taking them from the hospital for the disabled to the hospital or private clinic saying they are good doctors. Furthermore, thousands of rupees were taken from them under various pretexts. If I couldn’t pay, he would harass me. RAB arrested 11 members of the gang on the basis of the charges. RAB Executive Magistrate Palash Kumar Basu sentenced each of them to six months in prison after finding the allegations true during preliminary questioning. They have been accused of harassing patients and breaking up other clinics. The arrested people said they get a commission of 2,000 Tk as soon as the agents bring patients from the hospital to the clinic.
A RAB official said that before Corona, these brokers used to tell them when a new patient was admitted to the hospital for the disabled, that the doctors were negligent. It does not treat well. Once admitted, he cut off his arms and legs. And now, during the coronavirus outbreak, he says, if the disabled person is treated in the hospital, he can contract coronavirus. You cannot find a better treatment. Several doctors from the hospital for the disabled are also associated with the brokers. Doctors secretly advise relatives of the patient to be admitted to the designated hospital. This facilitates the work of the brokers, said the RAB official in the operation.
He said that once a patient enters a private hospital. Then the turn of collecting money from the patient’s relatives began with various excuses. Today is different. This is how they were committing this misdeed. Other people involved in this fraud will also be found, RAB-2 investigative officers said.
A victim named Sabuj Mia said she came to the disabled hospital with her sick father a few days ago due to leg problems. He complained that he was taken to Nur Jahan Clinic for better treatment, which left his father crippled for fear of an amputation. It is said that the treatment of the father’s foot will cost one lakh of rupees. So I say, how can you guarantee that my father will be better if you pay a lakh of rupees? So they say that no guarantee will be given.
RAB Executive Magistrate Palash Kumar Basu said there were reports of violence in various hospitals and that applicants for services were unable to reach the main hospital facilities. Dalal Chakra brainwashed the service seekers from the hospital gate and led them elsewhere. They were told that low-cost advanced medical services could be provided at these hospitals. People believe that. The reality is that there are no certified or experienced doctors in those places. Later they were handed a huge bill.
A relative of a patient named Abdur Rahman said about the harassment in the hospital for the disabled, some doctors in this hospital do not see the patient on purpose, they do not take good care of him. They want patients to be treated in their private clinics. Even if the patient dies, nothing happens to him. Hour after hour, day after day, patients are neglected here. Doctors have a goal of how to get the patient to their clinic through a corridor. Hospital doctors also run a runners’ union.
One of those arrested, Sagar, said he worked in marketing a hospital called Life Care Hospital. His responsibility is to take patients from the National Orthopedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institution (Pangu Hospital) to the Life Care Hospital. In return, he receives money per patient in addition to his salary. At the beginning of May 13 this year, RAB-2 arrested 10 people in Hatena while two patients were separated from the hospital for the disabled and admitted to Prime Hospital. Later, a mobile RAB court imposed a fine of Tk 22 lakh and a prison sentence for various terms.
Apart from this, RAB executive magistrate Palash Kumar Basu arrested seven people and imprisoned them for various periods in a raid on a hospital for the disabled on June 16 this year. Despite conducting raids several times a year, the violence of the disabled hospital intermediaries is not going to abate at all.
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