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Medicare meagre in Kushtia Hospital

From Our Correspondent
KUSHTIA. Jan 25: Kushtia General Hospital is beset with various problems. There was no permanent Civil Surgeon for a long time and only a few days ago a Civil Surgeon has been posted. It has been facing acute shortage of medicines. Both indoor and outdoor patients are being served with prescription only. The patients have to purchase medicines from outside. Besides. they have to purchase all other materials even required for minor operation.
The operation theatre is not equipped with modern amenities. It is not air conditioned. The broken air-condition machine is seen lying in the room for show. There is no experienced anesthesian and as a result operations are being done with heavy risk. The autoclave machine by which operational instruments are sterilised often goes out of order causing serious inconveniences.
There is no blood bank in the hospital and it becomes impossible for patients to procure bk*d In time from outside. There is no doctor for eye department and as result the eye patients are being deprived of the eye treatment.
There is no ambulance in the hospital for a tong time. Ambulance available with fire service. Dar-Us-Sefa. and Kushtia Pourashava are being used for serious patients on request, tt ts learnt.
The 100-bed cannot cope with increasing number of patients and has to accommodate 150 patients with extra beds on the floor. Others go back disappointed although they need admission.
Municipal market
Another report adds: Kushtia Municipal market.-the biggest market of the town Is beset with multiple problems which Include shortage of space, lack of maintenance and drainage system.
The market is situated in the centre of the town and was renovated In 1968 when popu lation of Kushtia was 29 thousand. The market now provides opportunity to one lakh 35 thousand people for buying and selling their daily necessities without any further expansion and as a result tt has become congested causing much inconvenience to the people. The gates of the market arc overcrowded with indiscriminate parking of rick-
shaws creating difficulties to the market-goers. The buildings and Un sheds constructed in 1868 have become dllapi-tated aa no repair work was done In the recent past. Tin roof of the covered portion of the market where fish and meat vendors are accommodated leaks profusely during rain.
The market is the man-agement of Kushtia Pourashava
' and Its income is considerable. Hut no initiative was taken by the Pourashava authority to miUgate the sufferings of the people who are also the Tax payers.
Overloading ;
Overloding of buses and mintbuses plying on KushUa-Khulna. Kushtla-Ishurdt and Kushtia-Mcherpur routes have become a regular feature and this is being continued despite heavy risk of lives.
The drivers of these vehicles hardly follow the existing traffic rules and resort to high speed at their whims. They tend to compete with each other in plying transports regardless of the safety of passengers.
The drivers do not maintain rules of stoppage and stop their vehicles at unschedule places to take passengers. As a result no transport can reach its destination in time causing sufferings to the travelling people. It Is alleged that conductors of buses and minibuses realise fares from the passengers above fixed rate and occasionally there arise altercation In this respect.
Moreover roads in these routes are in bad shape and have developed pot holes for want of proper maintenance. Plying of vehicles on these roads is risky while overloaded ones cover more risk. Silent role of law enforcing agencies tn this respect only add to more risk than safety.