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WB Survey on Public Hospitals

Most of equipment inoperative, idle

Staff Correspondent
More than half of the medical equipment in public hospitals remains dysfunctional, unused or underused, according to a World Bank survey.
The international financial institution found 11 percent equipment damaged and 11 percent functional but unutilised in 50 public health facilities in Dhaka, Khulna and Sylhet divisions, said Iffat Mahmud, a WB official, at a consultation with civil surgeons at the Cirdap auditorium in the capital yesterday.
Only 49 percent of the medical equipment in these hospitals is being properly used, reveals the survey titled “Medical Equipment Survey 2012".
Patients are often referred to private hospitals for medical tests, which increases healthcare expenditure and also makes health services beyond the reach of many, health experts said.
While presenting the survey, Iffat said 10 percent of the installed equipment had been found unused and another 20 percent had never been installed.
"The survey found many pieces of equipment packed intact, because those were not necessary at that moment," she said. There is a lack of maintenance budget for such equipment.
The WB suggested establishing a medical equipment department, a national policy and a central database to ensure best use of public goods.
"It takes a lot of time to repair the equipment. The procedure of fund disbursement should be expedited," said Abdul Malek Mridha, civil surgeon of Dhaka.
Citing the causes of dissatisfaction among doctors, for which they do not want to work in rural hospitals, civil surgeons at the discussion also pointed to doctors' negligence in their duties.
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With his neatly trimmed beard, Mizan looked unsurprised over what was going on around him that night. "I am on a path to justice and truth, you too should follow the lead," he had told reporters at the scene.
Following the confessional statement of Mizan, also known as Zahidul Islam, Rab busted a "minimunitions factory” of JMB in East Monipur of Mirpur and recovered 11 bombs, plastic explosives, grenade casings, fuses and detonators, a pistol, and a huge stock of chemicals.
Mizan from Shekherbhita of Jamalpur Sadar upazila was jailed for different terms for possessing arms, ammunitions, attacking a judge
and exploding bombs.
He was given eight years’ rigorous imprisonment in the sensational August-17, 2005, serial bomb blast case filed in Cox's Bazar. A Dhaka court on June 4, 2012, sentenced him and his wife to 37 years' of rigorous imprisonment each for possessing weapons and bullets. He was also given 34 years' of rigorous imprisonment in absentia for a bomb attack carried out on a judge in 2005.
Once a computer shop worker in Tangail, he was JMB ehsar (full-timer) since 2001 and had close relations with the executed militant kingpins Shaekh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqui Islam alias Bangla Bhai.
Mizan came to Rab's attention
after the countrywide serial attacks on August 17, 2005. The intelligence unit of Rab believe Mizan had long been working as the explosives expert of JMB. He had been training militants on how to make bombs and improvised grenades.
After his arrest, he had told The Daily Star correspondents, "I don't explode bombs; I rather train others how to make bombs and grenades. "
In 2003, Mizan was arrested in Jhikargachha of Jessore, but was out on bail after three months. Since then he had been on the run.
He had visited a number of countries including Afghanistan.