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To the editor
Mumbai tragedy... The terror that struck Mumbai on November 27 was a heinous assault on innocent people --- a tragedy for humanity at large.
This horrific bomb attacks on the hotels that took away about 150 people's lives, leaving five hundred severely injured are the worst terrorist attack so far in this pan of the world. Experts observed that this kind of string attack is only possible by trained people Some are speculating al-Qaida links; some others arc pointing straight fingers at Pakistan. Some are of the view that terrorists residing in the Pak-Afghan borders arc trying to spread communal discord among Indian Muslims and Hindus. Furthermore, they tend to believe that Pakistani Intelligence people were at the backdoor of the show
We express our deep hatred for the terrorists and the evil forces behind this cowardly act. Our sympathies go for the people of India who must now face the challenge with determination and courage. Rafiqul Islam Rime Agrabad, Chittagong
Politicians and pledges
With the election date drawing nearer, we see the politicians pledging to curb terrorism. establishing peace in society, even wanting to do everything for the betterment of the countrymen if their
respective parties are voted to power.
But just after winning the polls they tend to forget their promises. So we no longer want such fake pledges from the politicians. Politicians, please don’t try to cheat people.
Habibur Rashid Ismail Jamea Rah mania Fadil Madrasa
Choitenyarhat Chittagong
PM R departments
I admire "Bangladesh Association of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation" (BAPMR)'s proposal (source The Daily Star; 16-11-08) for establishing PMR Departments, thereby increasing the number of Physiotherapists. I very much agree to and request the respective authorities to implement the recommendations . Yes, all the Medical Colleges should have the department. The necessity of respective manpower production, that is, physiotherapists is increasing. It is essential for our country due to gradual increase in the number Road Traffic Accidents.
My disability happened in The serious road accident injured almost all parts o my body, including my ^‘‘bbshment of ICU in MMU saved rny life, evertheless, disability has ’ H rny survival worthless.
fortunately, one of my
Conference on poverty reduction Recently one of my American friends. Marilyn Kennedy has invited me to attend the forthcoming conferences organised jointly by the Global Development Organisation (G.D.O.), USA and the International labour Organisation (1LO), which is scheduled to be held in UK and Togo (West Africa) in January and February 2009. The theme of the UK conference is "War Against Child Abuse and Poverty Eradication" while the Togo conference will focus on I he Prevention Strategy on Racism".
The Global Development Organisation is an international organization dedicated to the eradication of poverty, racism, child abuse and child labour.
It has so far recruited more than 2000 workers to work in these fields both in developed and developing countries. The GDO has made signifi-
Swiss friends came to Bangladesh for attending a WHO programme & came to visit me. She suggested I be treated in a hospital, Christian Medical College Hospital (CMCH) in India. Their service quality, high humanity, co-operation among departments, discipline, superior
quality manpower etc. amazed me.
My suggestion is to send our student Physiotherapists & Nurses to the PMR department of the hospital for a certain period of their academic years. This will be very helpful for development of their professional skills.
Dr. Lailun Nah ar Shamoli, Dhaka
Talk show experts
Just tune in to a deshi TV channel, you will find them sometimes at loggerheads and sometimes trying hard to salvage the country and the people from all junks and pains overnight. They are the talk show experts, the jack of all trades. They delve into the faults, mistakes, lacks and lapses of this caretaker government, meticulously analyse them, severely admonish the Advisers and the Election Commissioners and then put up their valuable advices what should have been done but not what should be done next. They never tread the path by mistake even where this government has done commendable jobs. Who are they? Not all but few vainglorious media persons, retired government officials and ruminant politicians who stood hat in hands before the party governments in power and their Netries". They did not do any such thing at that time
cant achievements in their endeavours.
As 1 was going through the conference papers, I thought, participants from our country including youths particularly from those NGOs and philan-thropic organisations engaged in poverty alleviation and child abuse control may participate in the above mentioned conferences to share experiences with other participants coming from different countries.
An organisation can send a group of five participants.
For further information, Secretary. G.D.O may be contacted in the following address:
120 West School Street, P O Box 617 Stanton, Texas, USA.
E-mail: globaldeveloporg@mysinam ail.com
Professor M Zahidul Haque Chairman
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System
Sher-e-Rangla Agricultural Uniivrsity, Dhaka
when the party governments openly committed big blunders like corruption, terrorism, plunders and all evils, rather they endeavoured tooth and nail to prove them clean and even. The consequences were seen by the people of the country and of the world.
It pains to see that those party governments had only one opposition and all friends but this caretaker government has all opposition but no friends. Moreover, these pundits are all out to malign this government, digging out the smallest of the loopholes.
Even a mewing cat a few days back roars like a lion now. Even then this government must march forward with confidence and integrity, accomplish its assigned job as it should be accomplished.
MollaA. Latif
Kapasia, Gazipur
Banning hartal
While talking with me, a Turkish friend at DU very recently expressed his concern about the possible misery of hartal, which was a terrible experience for him when he came across this as a first year student at this university. I believe, the people, during the reign of emergency, also have forgotten this phi lomenon.
Recently, business leaders urged the government to ban hartal. I could agree with this, if they sought a public assertion from the major political parties rather than enacting a law banning hartal.
We know that there are so many laws in our country which are very often enforced. So, what's the outcome of such laws?
Mohammad Ala Uddin
NOMA student DU
Lawyers and police Recently I had the opportunity to Observe the debate between two lawyers in a court. One of them was trying to save an innocent man and another was trying to prove the innocent man to be a criminal. Fortunately, the magistrate issued bail to that innocent man and made him free temporarily. I am 100% sure that the lawyers and police knew that (he person who was in jail was innocent. This incident raised lots of questions in my mind. Such as 1) Should police be given the power to arrest anybody just on the basis of allegation or suspicion? 2) If yes then can we live in an independent country with freedom of honest people?, 3) Should not our government take any action against those police personnel who arrest innocent people after getting bribe from a criminal? 4) Should not the lawyers who try to prove an innocent person guilty face questions regarding their professional ethics?
The Holy Quran strongly warn us against those people. To save our society from the curse of injustice, lawyers should not tell lies. Lawyers, police and judges should understand before it is too late that if the situation continues like that of today their children may remain in jail forever, even if they are not involved in anycrime.
Dr. Mahboob Hossain
Associate Professor Department of Pharmacy University of Asia Pacific Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Pinki andSharna
Pinki and Sharna are two friends from their childhood. They were born and brought up in the same environment and same culture. They face similar social problems almost every moment because they are girls. Girls of their age are married normally at minor age in their society. But they don't want to marry at this stage, rather they want to continue higher studies with the expectation of being famous scientists. Now Sharna and Pinki are classmates at the Khairunnessa Memorial Technical School at Jkrail located in a river island (Char) of Bangladesh and they are supposed to appear at the S.S.C (Vocational) Board Final Examinations under Bangladesh Technical Education Board in March 2009. They are students of preengineering group under civil engineering courses. Both are exceptionally talented and meritorious. In recent (test) exams, both of them have obtained equal marks occupying the first position.
Being founder and president of the institute, I am very much shocked at the news that Shama's father does not want to send her daughter for board final examinations spending money (as fees). Alternatively, he is trying for her marriage. Last year a similar situation happened in case of Pinki but she tackled the situation and finally succeeded in stopping her marriage when Sharna was on her side. This time Pinki cannot help Sharna because erosion of the river
Modhumoti has separated them by a distance of at least six kms and they live on opposite sides of the river. Sharna is from the poorest of the poor families. In her society, girls' education is considered a "luxury and watering neighbour’s trees".
Any suggestion from any corner will be highly appreciated.
Prof. Lutfor Rahman Dhanmondi, Dhaka
What are they doing?
I am an inhabitant of North Halisahar, Ctg. I got my national ID card in the month of August before Ramadan. I found some mistakes over there & gave it back for correction. After one month, I went for collecting my ID from the board office but 1 was told that it was yet not prepared.
After that day I went there three times spending my valuable time & I got the same results.
What are they doing in the name of correction?
MdZlaul Haque IIUC,Chittagong
An appeal to govt
Ninety-five percent people of this country are suffering due to inflation, growth reduction and political instability.
We are urging (he govt to reduce petroleum oil prices, as in the global market it has fell down below 58$/barrel
A reader
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Drug quality control
Your staff correspondent's eye opening report on the matter published on 19 November, particularly the response from the manufacturer, clearly reflects the relaxed attitude to Quality Control of the manufacturer!
Firstly, the respondent was not sure, if it was their product, based on the fact that he had not seen the offending ampoule. Yet without seeing, he confidently states " It will not (and not "may not" since he is so sure!) pass through the syringe needle, and there is no possibility of its entering the vein of the patient". All this was .Stated, without knowing (be cross-sectional area of the bore of the needle used, or the size of the particle! Yet he is positively confident, that nothing wrong can happen to the patient, in using the contaminated ampoule!
On top of it he also says "no company can guarantee that there would not be a single ampoule among 15 million without defect". That is OK; so according to him, manufacturers can sell defective products! This despite the fact that he also says "If it is our product, I have to say it was a procedural mistake". Rather contradictory statements, but with no responsibility for procedural mistakes was mentioned!
According to his statements it appears that injectable contamination is just a defect only, nothing serious. Would the person kindly inform the public about the relevant ISO standards of
quality control, under which contamination of injectables by foreign body, is only considered as a defect, and the product can be sold!
Any organisation, where such laxity of manufacturing quality control is allowed, should have its drug manufacturing license suspended forthwith, and further manufacture stopped.
S.A. Mansoor
Dhaka
ICU unit
A hospital cannot be called truly a hospital without the presence of some basic units in it. The intensive care unit (ICU) is one such inherent but basic part of a hospital. Our medical college hospitals do not havc’thi’r life-saving unit. It is quite explicable that the government cannot provide everything for free where a big population of the country does not pay taxes. But setting up an ICU at medical college hospitals is a demand of time. Many local private hospitals in Bangladesh now have the know-how and they can help training nurses and technicians to run an ICU.
I think the expatriate Bangladeshi physicians should come forward to help their alma maters with modern knowledge and technologies in medicines. I am sure, if you tell your colleagues that you graduated from medical colleges where you did not see an ICU, you will be a laughed at. The alumni are one of the best resources in the USA of their alma maters. I hope you will come forward with your help and save the lives of the poor who cannot go to private hospitals. It is your moral
obligation and duty. By sharing your knowledge and wealth, you can make the difference in Bangladesh's health sectors.
Mamun Ahmed
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Indian visa
I went to apply for Indian visa in the Indian Embassy at Dhaka. It was a unique experience. The applicants' line for visa extended from the embassy gate of Road.137, Gulshan to the end of shoot-ing club and beyond. Thousands of people thronged for visa. I interviewed a few. Most of them were young people in the thirties and from normal middle class background. At first they lined up] at the bridge-head near 'Arong' outlet in Gulshan -Tejgaon link Road from the previous day evening. After midnight police allowed them to 'run' and again line up near the shooting club. During this procedure the 'dalals' or brokers reigned supreme .They occupied most of the front positions. The visa section opens from 8:00am and they accept applications till 12:00. Brokers sold the places later on. The asking rate varies from one thousand to two hundred taka depending on the place and time of sale. Police is also a party to this business. The brokers, guards and police work in tandem in sale of places. There are three lines- for women, 'specials' and hapless 'men'. Preference is given to the women and 'special' applicants. Every day at least a few hundred 'men' return without being successful. As
demand is more than the supply some 'corruption' is bound to happen. A solution needs to be found.
We would put forward the following suggestions for improvement of the situation and for alleviating sufferings of the visa seekers.
1. The Indian Embassy can view the visa granting activities as a financially gainful affair.
2. Previously,agents were allowed to file for and collect visa. This system has been discontinued. It may be reintroduced.
3. They may impose a visa fee for first track applicants, apart from the service charge of State Bank of India.
4. Applications may be received up to 2:00pm. . 5. Application receiving manpower and the number of counters may be increased.
6. Many countries stamp visa on arrival. If we analyse the nature of visa seekers they are mostly students, traders, tourist, business people etc. We understand that India has to take precautions against evil doers. We assume that no 'bad' elements, if any, will travel through regular routes. They can sneak through the porous border. So, 15 days' visit/ tourist visa may be granted on arrival. Peoples' sufferings will be lessened. Visa on arrival will boost up tourism, trade etc. and India will gain more financially.
We draw the attention of the Indian Embassy in Dhaka to the above matter and request them to consider the suggestions and mitigate peoples' sufferings.
Dr.SNMamoon
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