Jamalpur hospital shows how catastrophically mismanaged our health sector is

Government should address lack of progress in project on setting up district-level ICUs

Coronavirus patients will get ICU support at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) from now on as an 18-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with ventilators has been set up at its isolation unit.

The directorate of health services submits a report to the High Court saying that Tk 53 lakh is needed for setting up an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Tk 23 lakh is needed for installing a Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in a hospital.

It should not be lost on anyone that just 12 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds for the entirety of Noakhali, Feni, Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Bandarban, Cox's Bazar, and Chattogram are nowhere close to being adequate.

A few short years ago, financially struggling parents with very sick children in Chittagong had nowhere to turn.

Muktamoni, who was diagnosed with a tumour in her hand in August, is taken to the Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in “critical condition”.