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Refrain from privatising public hospitals

Shasthya Odhikar Jote urges govt

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged the government to refrain from privatising the public hospitals in the name of making them autonomous hospitals saying in that case poor people would not get health facilities.
They demanded inclusion of local government bodies in running and maintaining the service sectors of the state and ensuring government's monitoring over the private clinicsand hospitals.
The roundtable titled 'Privatisation of health service: Problem or panacea' was organised by Shasthya Odhikar Jote, an alliance working to ensure citizen's health rights, at the National Press Club in the city.
Speakers at the roundtable Called for allocating ^rqore., budget, and
reducing corruption in the health sector by introducing strong monitoring system at the local and the national level.
Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru said. "We need to find out the problems in the health sector and solve those after adopting effective plans immediately."
"We do not lack intelligence, efficiency and even money, what we lack is proper management. So through proper management problems in health sector could be removed," he said.
Opposing any sort of plans to privatise health sector. Columnist Farhad Mazhar said the statecraft has some constitutional obligations regarding the health sector and they should not violate those following instructions of some multilateral organisations. J.
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tise the public hospitals. Rather it should monitor the activities of the private hospitals to ensure accountability of those and smooth service to die people,” he added.
Dr Salek Ahmed of Shasthya Andolon said the government has reduced the health budget by Tk 1000 crore in the current fiscal.
" The allocation of that Tk 1000 crore to community clinics could help provide necessary health services to village people.” he said.
He also urged the government to increase facilities for medical officers attheupazilalevel.
The roundtable was also addressed by Rabiul Islam, researcher of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust. Selina Banu, executive director of Nongor, and Tusher Rahman, secretary general ofthe~Citften s Rights Movement. -