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Things better, but will they sustain?

Shaheen Mollah
Things may change in a day and they have at the neurosurgery department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
When a High Court judge went to visit an ailing relative in a ward there on Thursday, there was no doctor. The room felt terribly hot for the patients, as there was no fan moving overhead. Relatives were trying to cool their patients down with hand fans. All the ward's four fans had gone out of order monthsago.
Identifying himself, Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore, an additional HC judge, informed the DMCH authorities
of the situation. The authorities acted fast, replacing two fans with new ones within an hour.
Yesterday, the other two were replaced along with a few other inoperative ones in the adjacent ward, hospital sources told The Daily Star.
Nobody knows how long the patients would have to suffer if Justice Gobinda had not gone to see his relative.
"We came to know this from the judge. The officials concerned did not inform us about the problem," said Mushfiqur Rahman, acting deputy director of DMCH.
The fans went out of order a week
ago, he added.
But other DMCH sources said more than 50 fans at different wards of the country's biggest public hospital had remained broken for several months.
They added that the eightbed female and children ward, which Justice Gobinda visited, had been without fans for the last few months.
“I have seen all the four fans remain inoperative ever since my joining in January. The room is hot to work in even though it is not summer yet," said a nurse, preferring anonymity.
She added that she had discussed it with other colleagues but none of them ever had the courage to take the issue up to the authorities.
Akhter Hossain of Daudkandi in Comilla had his mother admitted to the ward on January 18. He said he often had to fan his mother, who has a head injury, with a hand fan as she sweated.
“But the patients, including my mother, are now feeling good as all the fans have been moving since the visit of the justice," he said yesterday.
According to experts, neurosurgery patients having injuries are vulnerable to sweat as it causes infections. Therefore they should be kept at a low-temperature room to prevent sweating.