TB patients
One of my closed relatives had been suffering from lung infection. He went to a doctor and he advised him to have X-ray of P/A view for diagnosing the disease. And the report found massive fluid effusion in his lungs. The doctor referred him to the CMCH (Chittagong Medical College Hospital) emergency department. He was admitted there but was accommodated on the floor as there was no bed available. But we found two empty beds in the ward, and were told that these were reserved for patients who had taken poison (apparently to commit suicide!). Then the doctors checked him and finally they came to the conclusion that the patient was suffering from TB.
Unfortunately, our hospitals are not well equipped to treat TB patients and there are still lots of anomalies insofar as offering the needed facilities to the patients are concerned.
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