Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said her government will reach specialized healthcare services online to the upazilas so rural people get treatment from home.
“We’re creating the scope so that they (the patients) can get specialized treatment sitting at their own locations and staying in upazilas,” she said.
The premier said this while inaugurating the golden jubilee celebration and the 14th convocation of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre here, joining it through a virtual platform from her official residence Ganobhaban.
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She said her government has installed web cameras at every upazila hospital. “We’ll improve it (the online services through web cameras) further. We’ve this plan so that they (patients) can avail the specialized treatment online.”
Hasina said though the government has already created the facility, it has a plan to improve it further so that the patients don’t need to come to Dhaka, rather they can avail the specialized healthcare services staying in their own areas.
The prime minister urged the physicians to stay beside the people with a vow to provide them services instead of taking it merely as a profession.
“I expect that you will stand beside the people with a vow to provide the services not just for the sake of profession,” she said.
The patients may get half-healed hearing some good words from a physician, said the premier.
“Good words from a physician can work as cure and create confidence among patients in many cases,” said the premier.
She stressed the need for more research in health science, improving the quality of healthcare services and raising public awareness about the outbreak of diseases.
“The research in health science is very essential for us. You (the physicians) will pay more attention to the research,” she said, adding that it is also an important thing to keep the people protected from many diseases that break out in the country due to its weather and climate.
“If our physicians can do such good jobs going abroad, why won’t they do it in our country? That is my question,” she said.