Health Minister Dr. Samanta Lal Sen on Sunday directed the authorities concerned to shut down all unregistered hospitals, diagnostic centres, and clinics across the country.
"Stern actions will be taken against those who run medical facilities without licences," he was talking to journalists after visiting M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital in Dinajpur.
Regarding the manpower in the hospital, Dr Sen said, authorities will take quick measures to increase the manpower in Dinajpurs M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital.
Besides, the government is taking initiatives to upgrade all public hospitals including district and upazila to provide healthcare services to the steps of rural people, he said.
The minister also said that whoever is transferred to wherever should stay there and provide treatment facilities to the people living in rural areas.
"No doctors will be treated unfairly. If posted, instructions must be followed, no compromise will be made for this," he added.
Jatiya Sangsad Whip Iqbalur Rahim, Health Secretary Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Professor Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Civil Surgeon Dr Borhanul Islam Siddiqui and Principal of Dinajpur M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital Dr Nuruzzaman, among others, were present on the occasion. —UNB
