Hospital and Two Diagnostic Centres Closed in Manikganj's Ghior Over Irregularities, Fined Tk 76,000
The health department has closed a private hospital and two diagnostic centres in Ghior, Manikganj, over various irregularities. A mobile court also fined the three institutions a total of Tk 76,000.
Manikganj Civil Surgeon Dr Ivy Ferdous led the operation at noon on Thursday (November 12) at Adhunik Hospital, Unique Medical Centre and Evergreen Medical Centre in the upazila. Ghior Upazila Assistant Commissioner (Land) Tanvir Islam conducted the mobile court at the time.
During the operation, Ghior Adhunik Hospital was closed and fined Tk 40,000. The institution had no separate cabins or wards for women and men and no designated room for normal delivery. Investigators also found that doctors' names were not mentioned in operation theatre (OT) documents, along with irregularities in ultrasonogram reports and rule-breaking tests in the pathology department.
In the same operation, Evergreen Medical Centre was closed and fined Tk 18,000. Expired reagents were found stored in its pathology department, and there were allegations of overcharging for tests.
Unique Medical Centre was fined Tk 18,000 over various irregularities. Evidence was found against it of overcharging for tests, storing expired reagents, and having no air-conditioning in its laboratory, among other irregularities.
After the operation, Ghior Upazila Assistant Commissioner (Land) Tanvir Islam said operations had been conducted at three institutions with the civil surgeon, and the institutions were fined a total of Tk 76,000 over irregularities. He said such drives would continue in the public interest.
Civil Surgeon Dr Ivy Ferdous said the health department is working so that every person in Manikganj receives regular and quality healthcare. As part of that, a private hospital and two diagnostic centres in Ghior were inspected, and none of them was fit to provide healthcare. She said cheating ordinary people in this way cannot be accepted, and necessary action was taken against the irregularities.
