The trial of the clinic owner including the doctor started

Abdur Razzak, Kushtia: Despite the fact that health care is a constitutionally recognized fundamental right in the life of a citizen, the sensitive sector is now largely in the hands of unscrupulous profiteers. Innumerable incidents like loss of life are constantly happening in this. The concerned officials are not taking responsibility. Despite various criticisms and limitations, government health care institutions continue to play a role in protecting public health. However, in this case, from the approval of the health department to the various allegations of irregularities, mismanagement against private hospitals and clinics. Even the private clinics and hospitals of the district have chosen as the only source of profit by despising life in extreme arbitrariness including violating the necessary compliance rules. Although the loss of life in the name of treatment is a daily occurrence, the proportion of its exemplary remedy is also a fair burden in thousands. However, out of thousands of such incidents, Kushtia Model Police has filed a complaint in the court confirming the initial truth of the death of a rice mill worker due to negligence in the caesarean section of his wife; This is how Kushtia government tactician Adv. Anup Kumar Nandi.

Little Babu Tauhid (6 months) who lost his mother has found a place in the house of his grandfather Arshed Ali and grandmother Parul Begum They have been nurtured on their laps since birth. Maternal deaths due to fraud and negligence of doctors and clinic owners are nothing new. However, Ali Akbar, the husband of Tania Khatun (22), a resident of Banshgram village in Kumarkhali upazila and the maternity wife of Ali Akbar, a rice mill worker, is facing trial in a case filed at Kushtia Model Police Station.

Dr. Abu Saeed Siddiqui (60), Nurse Papia Khatun alias Suku (48), Health Assistant Rakibul Islam alias Rafiqul alias Nayan (38), Clinic Owner Mashiur Rahman Nizam (55) and Dalal Mir were involved in the negligent deaths. Kushtia Model Police have filed a chargesheet against five people, including Rezaul, 48, son of Abdus Sattar of Tantibandh village in the upazila.

According to court sources, in the afternoon of August 1, 2020, Tania Khatun (22), the probable maternity wife of Akbar Ali, a resident of Banshgram in Kumarkhali Upazila, gave birth to a child. Family members rushed Tania to Kushtia GeneralHospital. On the way, he met Rezaul, a broker of a private clinic called IslamiaHospital on Kushtia Sadar Upazila Parishad Road. At that time, Rezaul stopped the patient`s vehicle and entered the private clinic. At that time, the owner of the clinic, the doctor and the nurse were able to give birth to a son by caesarean section without a real stylist and anesthesiologist without checking the suitability or feasibility, but the ignorant mother could not regain her knowledge. Seeing that the situation was strange, the clinic authorities evacuated the patient and advised better treatment. Later, the relatives of the patient took the patient to the emergency department of Kushtia GeneralHospital where the doctor on duty declared the mother Tania dead. The patient`s husband Akbar Ali was aggrieved by the incident and filed a case with the Kushtia Model Police Station alleging that he died due to medical negligence. After investigating the case, the police filed a chargesheet against the five accused in November last year after finding the preliminary truth of the allegations against the five accused, including the owner of the clinic named Ezahar. But after resolving various obstacles, the court finally fixed the date for hearing the charges against the accused last week.

Dr. Tapas Kumar Sarkar, Resident Medical Officer, Kushtia GeneralHospital, said that there are many environmental issues associated with the death of a patient in a private clinic. Only by closely monitoring whether the rules framed by the Ministry of Health have been violated can it be understood whether there was a medical defect or negligence that could lead to the death of the patient. In the final opinion of the autopsy of the deceased: Tania Khatun (22): "The causw of death is due to sudden cardiac arrest which is anti-mortem and accidental in nature." The investigating officer said in his report that in the circumstantial reality of the incident, he had found the truth of the death of the patient due to medical negligence.

The Civil Surgeon of Kushtia said that according to the rules of the Department of Health for the establishment of non-government clinics or diagnostic centers or hospitals, anesthesia experts as well as relevant doctors must be present while operating the operating theater. Otherwise you can`t run it in any way. The accused private clinic Islamic Hospital has been found to be deviating from the conditions prescribed by the rules. Moreover, there are some deviations from the rules regarding their licenses, where the case has been, now the matter is a matter for the court. Civil Surgeon AHM Dr Anwarul Islam hung up the phone without answering the question as to whether the private clinics as the district health department could avoid the responsibility of the civil surgeons for these irregularities.