New 151-bed hospitals to be built in all 503 upazilas, health state minister says in Sirajganj
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr M A Muhit has said new 151-bed hospitals will be built in 503 upazilas of the country. Under the government's plan, people at the grassroots will receive healthcare from their own upazila. Primary healthcare will also be strengthened further.
The state minister said this while answering journalists' questions after visiting the Sirajganj 250-bed General Hospital at noon on Thursday.
The state minister said: 'Because of the corruption and mismanagement of past governments, the dilapidated state of the health sector that we have inherited is visible across the country. Somewhere there is a staff shortage, somewhere equipment lies broken. In many hospitals there is equipment but no necessary manpower to operate it. In many places medical colleges were built but no campus of their own was created.'
Dr M A Muhit also said planned activities are needed to get out of the confusing situation created in the health sector in the name of development. The new hospitals will be built under that plan.
The state minister said more than a hundred thousand health workers will be employed in these new hospitals.
Deputy Commissioner Aminul Islam, Civil Surgeon Dr Nurul Amin and Superintendent of Sirajganj 250-bed General Hospital Dr Shahidullah Dewan were present at the time.
