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Red Crescent Hospital in Dinajpur

Medicare stops as bldg rented for 'fund crisis'

Kongkon Karmaker, Dinajpur
The main medical services at Red Crescent Hospital in the town has remained stopped for the last four years as the centre meant for providing quality treatment for low cost rented out its building and complex on the plea of fund shortage.
A unit of global charitable organisation Red Crescent, the hospital at Paharpur in Dinajpur town was founded in 1972.
The hospital with an operation theatre, laboratory, an ICU, several cabins and separate general wards for male and female patients used to provide treatment to patients with a nominal cost and a good number of doctors and nurses served there.
Once around 40 operations took place at the hospital every month while around 50 to 60 patients including mothers and children came there daily for treatment, said a staff of the hospital.
"Our outdoor service is open, but other services have remained suspended. Now only a small number of patients come here' said Sister Danish, who has been serving the hospital for last 20 years.
Lying unused, diagnostic machinery including X-Ray, two incubators and an ultrasound machine are gathering dust while officially it is claimed that the machinery are dysfunctional, sources said.
There is a 10-member management committee to con-
duct the hospital activities.
Md Bazlul Haq, vice president of the district unit committee of ruling Awami League (AL), is chairman of the hospital management committee, while Md Alauddin, another vice president of district AL, is general secretary of the committee.
In 2010, the incumbent managing committee rented the hospital building to Dinajpur Medical Institute, a paramedics training centre, upon a contract that would end in 2016.
Till last month, the institution used the building,
paying Tk 20,000 as monthly rent.
Besides, the first floor of the building was used as its students' mess, for monthly payment of Tk 6300.
Although the agreement was for six years till 2016, the hospital managing committee made the authority of Dinajpur Medical Institute to vacate the hospital building, as the managing committee signed a contact to rent the building and its compound to Dinajpur School of liberators, an English medium School, formonthlyrentofTk70,000.
Md Bazlul Haq, chairman
of the hospital management committee, said, "We rented the hospital as the country office stopped funding the hospital and we have no other source to bear the maintenance expenses including payment of salaries to hospital staff."
Locals said drug addicts often throng the complex area at night.
Md Shawkat, in-charge of Health of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society in Dhaka, said, "There is no system to rent off the hospital building and complex to other organisations. We will investigate the allegation."