ed by the physicians for poor and helpless patients on different doses, are secretly being removed from stores and different wards by such internal syndicates, they said. Last year, a ward boy named Nasiruddin secretly removed a huge amount of medicine from Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The stealing incident took place on April 23, 2013. The ward boy was caught when he was fleeing from the hospital. Hospital sources said Nasiruddin used to sell stolen medicines to the representatives of different companies who resold them in rural areas. Nasiruddin said many like him are involved in such activities. His statement gives a clear picture of how free medicines are being stolen from the country’s state-owned hospitals by syndicates of hospital employees. Public health experts have expressed deep concern over the stealing of free medicine from the state-run hospitals as low-income people are being deprived of proper treatment at the hospitals. Dr Muhammad Abdus Sabur, a renowned health expert, said stealing free medicine from public hospitals is a crime and it happens due to lack of monitoring over the employees. “The government is purchasing medicines spending millions of dollar every year for providing comprehensive medical support to ultra poor and destitute people of the society but different syndicates are stealing such medicines with a view to earning extra,” he added. “This type of syndicate is active in most of the state-owned hospitals and they not only remove medicines secretly but also are involved in collecting money from hospital-bound patients promising them to give seats in the hospitals after admission,” Dr Sabur said. These stolen medicines are sent to rural areas for resale as drug shop owners and hospital syndicates are being benefited from such illegal activities, he said. A senior clinician of BIRDEM hospital said crimes in medical sector have different forms and stealing medicine is very common in the country. In most of the cases, it is found that a strong nexus is formed between hospital employees and outsiders who remove medicines secretly from the hospitals. Stealing of medicine will continue if the authorities concerned fail to root out the syndicates from hospitals. He urged the government to strengthen its monitoring over the drug stores and ward boys and other employees of the hospital to check stealing of medicine. Contacted, Prof Dr ABM Abdul Hannan, director of hospital of directorate of health services, said they have already given directives to all directors of public hospitals to strengthen monitoring system to stop such malpractice by dishonest employees. “Now our hospitals are patient-friendly and no patient is going back without receiving treatment,” he added.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Free medicines being smuggled out from govt hospitals:Daily Sun
ed by the physicians for poor and helpless patients on different doses, are secretly being removed from stores and different wards by such internal syndicates, they said. Last year, a ward boy named Nasiruddin secretly removed a huge amount of medicine from Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The stealing incident took place on April 23, 2013. The ward boy was caught when he was fleeing from the hospital. Hospital sources said Nasiruddin used to sell stolen medicines to the representatives of different companies who resold them in rural areas. Nasiruddin said many like him are involved in such activities. His statement gives a clear picture of how free medicines are being stolen from the country’s state-owned hospitals by syndicates of hospital employees. Public health experts have expressed deep concern over the stealing of free medicine from the state-run hospitals as low-income people are being deprived of proper treatment at the hospitals. Dr Muhammad Abdus Sabur, a renowned health expert, said stealing free medicine from public hospitals is a crime and it happens due to lack of monitoring over the employees. “The government is purchasing medicines spending millions of dollar every year for providing comprehensive medical support to ultra poor and destitute people of the society but different syndicates are stealing such medicines with a view to earning extra,” he added. “This type of syndicate is active in most of the state-owned hospitals and they not only remove medicines secretly but also are involved in collecting money from hospital-bound patients promising them to give seats in the hospitals after admission,” Dr Sabur said. These stolen medicines are sent to rural areas for resale as drug shop owners and hospital syndicates are being benefited from such illegal activities, he said. A senior clinician of BIRDEM hospital said crimes in medical sector have different forms and stealing medicine is very common in the country. In most of the cases, it is found that a strong nexus is formed between hospital employees and outsiders who remove medicines secretly from the hospitals. Stealing of medicine will continue if the authorities concerned fail to root out the syndicates from hospitals. He urged the government to strengthen its monitoring over the drug stores and ward boys and other employees of the hospital to check stealing of medicine. Contacted, Prof Dr ABM Abdul Hannan, director of hospital of directorate of health services, said they have already given directives to all directors of public hospitals to strengthen monitoring system to stop such malpractice by dishonest employees. “Now our hospitals are patient-friendly and no patient is going back without receiving treatment,” he added.
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