We have a dream

By Dr. Rubaiul Murshed
13 April 2005, 18:00 PM
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One day in the very near future our citizens will understand they can receive the quality medical care they have not yet found available in Bangladesh.

Our children will understand they are being treated well here in their own motherland surrounded by their close ones.

Our youngsters will understand why people do not need to travel out of country for good medical treatment.

Our mothers will understand how 'infection control' can save a neonate or a mother? And what does malnutrition mean?

Our senior citizens will understand they will be able to breathe comfortably in a healthy environment of medical care.

People from neighboring countries will understand Bangladesh provides international standard Interventional Cardiology, Radiology and Bypass Surgery.

Our privileged class will understand and put their faith in our 'sophisticated medical services' like joint replacement and kidney transplant of international standard.

Our Bangladesh expatriate doctors will understand time has come to return home from Sydney, London, Toronto and New York and practice in a state-of the-art health care facility.

This 'Home-Run' programme visualised by us will fetch medical talents home commencing an important 'reverse brain drain' in health care delivery in Bangladesh.

Our Golden Bengal will understandably provide 'first world' hospital care at standard 'third world' cost and Bangladesh will also become a 'medical destination of choice' and a choice for health-tourism.