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Physicians should establish more communication links with patients'
State Minister for Information Prof Abu Sayeed yesterday asked the health administrators and doctors to establish strong communication links with the common people to halt exodus of patients' abroad, reports BSS.
The doctors should rethink about a common problem, why a large number of patients leave Bangladesh for Bangkok. Singapore. India and other countries and how much money is drained out though we have scores of international standard physicians, he said while inaugurating a professional journal "Medicine Digest' at a city hotel.
Chief editor of Medicine Digest National Prof M R Khan presided over the function Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Prof Dr M A Quaderi, Prof A K Azad Khan of B1RDEM and Managing Director of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Bangladesh (Limited) A K M Shamsuddln spoke on the occasion.
Prof Sayeed said the physicians of the country have been confronted with confidence crisis. They should feel a strong
urge of conscience in bridging gaps with common people to overcome such crisis, he said. Though we lack sophisticated and expensive medical technology. the big wild exists in the field of service, not technology
The state minister observed that at least 30 to 40 per cent of (he national resources are bring wasted by the patients. Hr said recently the rate of exodus of the patients have reduced but the doctors should extend their helping hands to curb this trend Immediately to stop wastage of national wealth.
Prof Sayeed urged the medicinal experts to use mass communication media like Bangladesh Betar and Television to disseminate messages relating to public health. He said we are not utilising services of experienced physicians in healthcare programmes in broadcasting media. But the listeners and viewers, he hoped, would be more happy If medical experts were selected for those programmes.
The stale minister said doctors should abandon centralized approach. They should develop habits of staying In the villages and mofussll towns. It
is unfortunate that the physl-(Ians don't want to leave the ( apital and they don't discharge Ihrir duties In npazila health • ornplrxes properly.
Vice-Chancellor of BSMMU Pro! M A Quaderi said he would nof mind if the members of the affluent section of sock tv leave home* for better treatment abroad. But. he said. "I surely feel concerned when a large number of people visit India. Singapore. Bangkok and other places for clinical assistance easily available in the country"
He advised physicians to be more cautious In making diagnosis.
Prof A K Azad Khan said the , western medical Journals never cater to our needs and many contemporary Issues of our country are totally absent in those scientific literature.
A K M Shamsuddln expressed the hope that the Medicine Digest would be useful for continued medical education in the country. He requested the pioneers in the field . of medicine to dedicate their intellectual efforts for the journal.