Irregularities in Healthcare: DGHS orders closure of 7 pvt facilities
The health directorate yesterday ordered seven private hospitals, diagnostic centres, and a blood bank in the capital to close down all activities after it found widespread anomalies in those establishments during a recent inspection.
The seven establishments are Prime Orthopedic General Hospital and Digital Diagnostic Centre, Dhaka Healthcare Hospital, Remedy Care Limited, Life Care General Hospital, Jamuna General Hospital, Royal Multi-Care Specialty Hospital, Diagnostic Centre, and Rajdhani Blood Bank and Transfusion Centre.
All seven institutions, located at the Muktijoddha Tower in Mohammadpur, were inspected by a DGHS team on July 28, according to the order.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) also issued show-cause notice as to why licences of those institutions would not be cancelled.
DGHS Assistant Director Mohammad Habib Ismail Bhuiyan and Medical Officer Mahmud Ullah signed the order with approval from the director general.
During the inspection at Prime Orthopedic General Hospital and Digital Diagnostic Centre, the team found no doctor certified by BMDC, a sufficient number of nurses and Lab technologists on duty at the institution.
The team also found evidence of charging more than the government fixed charge for different medical tests from patients.
While inspected Dhaka Healthcare Hospital, the team found evidence of immoral practice by keeping patients at the ICU though they did not need the support and overcharging patients.
The requisite number of doctors and nurses were also not found in the hospital.
The inspection at Remedy Care Limited revealed that the hospital was operating without renewal of its licence.
The ICU-based hospital made for business interest is running with the help of brokers and has a very unsatisfactory waste management and infection prevention system, the order mentioned.
The order mentioned that during the inspection at Life Care General Hospital no physician or nurse was found at the hospital while its waste management and infection prevention system was very unsatisfactory.
About the irregularities of Jamuna General Hospital, the health directorate order said both Covid-19 and non-Covid patients were being treated at the ICU.
Besides, it was found overcharging oxygen bill and the hospital's waste management and infection prevention system were very unsatisfactory.
The inspection team did not find the requisite number of doctors and nurses on duty at Royal Multi-Care Specialty Hospital and Diagnostic Centre during the visit.
It also charged patients for different tests, at rates much higher than those fixed by the government and found unsatisfactory waste management and infection prevention system.
During the visit to the blood bank, the inspection team did not find an MBDC certified MBBS doctor.
It also did not find any nurse, technologist and lab attendant, according to the order.
Earlier on July 31, a DGHS team inspected three hospitals in the capital's Uttara and found widespread irregularities, including treating Covid-19 patients without permission and that too with insufficient equipment and shortage of trained doctors and nurses.
The hospitals inspected were Shin Shin Japan Hospital, Uttara Al-Ashraf General Hospital and Radical Hospital.
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