The number of liver patients has increased in Rajshahi, but the number of beds for their treatment did not increase accordingly in Rajshahi Medical College (RMC) Hospital.
According to the Hepatology department at RMCH, 10 percent people in Rajshahi are suffering from liver disease.
However, there is an assistant professor in the Hepatology Department at RMC. There is also an IMO medical officer. There are three doctors in the total hepatology, four professors in the gastroenterology department. The doctors have been managing the endoscopic room.
For the huge population of the whole district, there are only 10 beds for the hepatology patients in RMC Hospital. The rest of the patients are kept in the hospital floor.
According to the information of hepatologists at RMC Hospital, 10 to 12 percent of all the patients of RMCH, are suffering from liver-related diseases. Every year, there admit more than six thousand people with Liver disease.
Asked whether the medical equipment is inadequate in the hospital for liver treatment, the concerned doctors said they have Endoscopy and Colonoscopy facilities. But it is inadequate. If once the machine goes out of order, it takes a lot of time to repair.
The doctors also said that Therapeutic health care is not just diagnosis of people, proper treatment is also necessary. Here the application has been submitted from the Department of hepatology.
Apart from this, the application has been submitted from the Gastroenterology Department for all the treatment machines of liver treatment. Specifically, several machines required to perfo rm eruption tumor operations.
RMCH Liver department head, Harun ar Rashid, a study of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has found that in most of the medical colleges hospitals, 10 percent of indoor patients are Liver disease patients.
Studies have shown that, most of the time people become unconscious and eat unhealthy food and water. The virus spread due to improper treatment, drug intake and unhygienic food consumption, he added.
He also said that the main problem of our country is Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis-C virus. The end result of these two viruses is Liver cirrhosis, and Liver cancer.
Usually, if the hepatitis B and C virus enters a person's body, in some cases it takes between 15 to 20 years and in some cases between 20 and 30 years to turn into Liver cirrhosis or cancer. It spreads through normal blood, through the sexual intercourse, among children from mother, he also added.
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