Director General of Health Services (DGHS) has instructed all the public hospitals to take special measures in order to ensure quality services to the patients during the upcoming Eid-ul-fitr.
It has instructed all the public hospitals to be prepared with a full-fledged medical team, ambulance, and medical equipment to handle any kind of emergency for week before and after Eid.
The public hospitals have set a special menu for the patients on Eid, including the Eid special delicacies like polao, chicken curry, beef curry, eggs, sweets, yogurt, vermicelli etc.
The outdoor wing of the hospitals will open on the next day of Eid day.
On the other hand, patients with no severe ailment are being discharged upon permission of doctors from most of the hospitals to celebrate Eid. The scenario is common in most of the big hospitals across the capital, including Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Mitford Hospital, Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital, National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute, National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) etc.
Usually 2200-2500 patients remain admitted at the DMCH, however the number was below 1800 on Friday.
Professor Dr A B M Abdul Hannan, Director, DGHS, told the Dhaka Tribune the service provided at public hospitals are different as thousands of patients keep pouring in. So the doctors and staffs have to be at work on holidays as well.
The authorities of public hospitals have started preparing roasters for doctors, nurses, and staffs during Eid. Usually doctors of any religion other than Islam, remain on duty during Eid.
Dr Musfiqur Rahman, Deputy Director, DMCH said the roaster of staffs would be at hand very soon and they would ensure improved service for the patients.
Seeking anonymity, one high official of DGHS told Health Minister AFM Ruhal Hoque has advised to keep big hospitals like DMCH, Mitford, National heart Institute and NITOR under keen observation. A number of victims of the Rana Plaza collapse will remain admitted at NITOR during Eid.
