Speakers at a views-sharing meeting underscored the need for making Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) and its one-stop crisis center (OCC) more patients- friendly and need-oriented.
They viewed that many of the common people especially the poor and marginal are totally dependent on the public hospital for their emergency health problems.
Likewise, they said the hospital must be functioned as a pro-people organisation so that the hopes and aspirations of the people are reflected properly.
Conscious Citizens Committee (CCC), a sister organisation of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), organized the meeting with the management of RMCH at its conference hall here yesterday.
RMCH Director Brigadier General AKM Nasir Uddin, who presided over the meeting, sought all-out cooperation to run the hospital successfully alongside upgrading the standard of healthcare services.
He assured of his all possible cooperation for issuing medical certificate to the OCC victims within three days or maximum seven days. Necessary measures will be taken to bring its activities and services under transparency and accountability, he added.
Speaking on the occasion, CCC Convener Prof Dr Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan underscored the need for making the hospital's service delivery activities more effective and need-oriented through arranging public awareness meetings frequently.
He said put emphasis on making all the administrative and management activities including the services of doctors, nurses, medical technologists and others concerned transparent and accountable so that the patients in general could derive total benefits of the hospital.