Response to Tania Hossain Firoz's letter- 'Is this fair?'
This is in response to Tania Hossain Firoz's letter published in the Daily Star dated 26th of June 2005. Lab aid Cardiac Hospital fully appreciates her concern about the status of women in our society and expresses its full solidarity with her viewpoint that women of our country have been very successful not only in the field of medicine but in all spheres of our national life. Our Prime Minister is a woman. The Leader of the Opposition is also a woman. None of these two ranks has feminine gender. Similarly there is no feminine gender for doctors and engineers. The word 'Chelera' used in the advertisement is more symbolic than literal. It was never intended to mean only the men folk of the country nor was it used to propagate or promote any discriminatory concept of slighting the women community of the country. This terminology, it may not be out of place to mention, has been in use in our spoken vocabulary for ages and the advertisement only picked up the commonly used phrase "Sonar Chelera" to mean both men and women. It is worthwhile to mention here that Labaid Cardiac Hospital is an equal opportunity provider and is staffed with competent and successful female employees and doctors. Nevertheless, we thank and appreciate Ms. Tania Hossain Firoz for raising the point.
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