Medical Negligence in Bangladesh
Medical Negligence, Malpractices, Law and Bangladesh Perspective
Back in 1992 there were hardly any private medical hospitals in Bangladesh. Standard of medical treatments were comparatively lower than now it is but it was at least at the standard as expected from the available expertise and technologies. This is 2012, and it is expected that the standard of medical treatment would grow up significantly.
During 80’s- 90’s we used to see news of malpractices of so called ‘doctor’ only in villages who were famous to city people as ‘haturi doctors’. They used to leave medical gauges, scissors, wrist watches and what not. However, such instances were limited in villages only. Let us remind ourselves once again, this is 2012 and the medical science advanced to that extent where cancers can be cured, leaver can be transplanted, various laser treatments are in practice.
Let us not look back too far. Mrs. Salina (a fictitious name) had an operation in 1993 in one of the biggest name in Bangladesh medical arena situated at the heart of Dhaka city Shahbag. She had her kidney stone operated by the one of the ‘best doctor’ of the Hospital of that time. After few days of the operation took place she started feeling sever pain in her stomach and managed to see the doctor after several attempt and the doctor said ‘this is nothing but a post-operative pain which will be healed in few days. After ‘few days’ the patient saw the doctor again and the doctor said “this kind of pain will never dissolve permanently, but will get reduced to ‘almost zero!’”. After couple of month when the patient could not bear the pain went to one of the adjacent countries, had her operation in the same place and found a cotton ball inside her stomach which was left the by the previous doctor at the time of operation. The first doctor is now one of the ‘best surgeons’ in Bangladesh and you have wait at least for couple of months to manage to get an appointment of him.
Mr. Anis (a fictitious name)
Back in 1992 there were hardly any private medical hospitals in Bangladesh. Standard of medical treatments were comparatively lower than now it is but it was at least at the standard as expected from the available expertise and technologies. This is 2012, and it is expected that the standard of medical treatment would grow up significantly.
During 80’s- 90’s we used to see news of malpractices of so called ‘doctor’ only in villages who were famous to city people as ‘haturi doctors’. They used to leave medical gauges, scissors, wrist watches and what not. However, such instances were limited in villages only. Let us remind ourselves once again, this is 2012 and the medical science advanced to that extent where cancers can be cured, leaver can be transplanted, various laser treatments are in practice.
Let us not look back too far. Mrs. Salina (a fictitious name) had an operation in 1993 in one of the biggest name in Bangladesh medical arena situated at the heart of Dhaka city Shahbag. She had her kidney stone operated by the one of the ‘best doctor’ of the Hospital of that time. After few days of the operation took place she started feeling sever pain in her stomach and managed to see the doctor after several attempt and the doctor said ‘this is nothing but a post-operative pain which will be healed in few days. After ‘few days’ the patient saw the doctor again and the doctor said “this kind of pain will never dissolve permanently, but will get reduced to ‘almost zero!’”. After couple of month when the patient could not bear the pain went to one of the adjacent countries, had her operation in the same place and found a cotton ball inside her stomach which was left the by the previous doctor at the time of operation. The first doctor is now one of the ‘best surgeons’ in Bangladesh and you have wait at least for couple of months to manage to get an appointment of him.
Mr. Anis (a fictitious name)