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RANGPUR, April 7 (BDNEWS): Clinic business is rampant in five districts of greater Rangpur defying government rules. People are being cheated in the name of treatment, but none is there to look into it.
Besides small clinics at remote bazaars, there are more than 300 other clinics in different upazilas of greater Rangpur including Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Gaibandha and Nilphamari. Most of such clinics have no licence.
Such mushroom clinics run their business in collusion with doctors and other hospital staff sharing percentages of their income.
People are attracted with colourful signboards, trapped by middlemen or even driven from government hospitals in the name of better care and treatment into such clinics.
But most of these have no experienced surgeon and trained nurses, except some new doctors who have passed from different private medical colleges, and not more than one trained nurse.
They milk money from the patients until the patient is transferred to a government hospital in a dying state.
Local people have alleged that they cannot go to the government clinics and sub-centres at union level since all the assigned or posted doctors stay in district towns for private practice.
State of the diagnostic and pathological tests in such clinics is very miserable.
In most cases diseases cannot be detected properly due to faulty and improper diagnostic reports done by the quacks instead of laboratory technicians with diploma.
Almost all of the local drug stores have neither trained pharmacist nor drug licence.
District civil surgeon and other authorities concerned, who are to look into the matter, are not taking any legal action against such clinics for unknown reasons, probably for the alleged links to some high-up doctors including some influential persons of BMA.
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