Corruption in medical sector

By S. A. Mansoor Gulshan, Dhaka
12 April 2006, 18:00 PM
Your staff correspondent's front page report and photograph (DS: April 05) followed by your (April 06) editorial next day is a disgrace to the medical profession in general and the management of National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology in particular. Where has medical ethics gone? Probably gone to the dust like every other value racing away from our country.

I think like the chief executive of the country and other ministers' musings; the answer will be "We were not aware", although the mobile court and your correspondent were! It is a shame indeed. No wonder those who can afford to, go to India, Thailand and Singapore for medical treatment including our national leaders.

In reply to your statement, "The health minister owes an explanation," the expected response will be "we were not aware". Possibly the AL leaders or “agents from across the borders” were involved in it!

Various inspections, codes, controls and regulations suggested in your editorial are all well and good. Will it not however open a Pandora's Box of corruption? Unfortunately, who will catch whom and when and how? This country is going through a progressive character regression with morality as the first causality. Who can stop it? Least of all our politicians! Only Allah can help us.