ACC finds 40% doctors absent in inspection of 11 hospitals

According to the ACC, 11 percent of the doctors were absent from three hospitals in Dhaka, but 62 percent were absent from seven hospitals outside it.

The hospitals inspected were the Sarkari Kormochari Hospital, Maa O Shishu Sadan and Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka, Upazila health complexes in Mymensingh’s Muktagachha, Tangail’s Delduar, Rangpur’s Pirgachha, Rajshahi’s Godagari, Kushtia’s Kumarkhali, and Pabna’s Atgharia, Pabna General Hospital and Dinajpur General Hospital.

ACC Director General (Administration) Munir Chowdhury told reporters that 11 of their teams conducted the inspection simultaneously from 9am to 2pm on Monday.

"Of the 131 doctors, only 50 were present according to the rota of hospitals in seven districts outside Dhaka," he added.

An employee of Mugda General Hospital emergency department, Md Abu Musa Mia, was fired on the recommendation of the ACC for allegedly accepting a bribe from the relatives of a patient.

Munir said the inspections were conducted based on complaints received through the ACC’s hotline from patients suffering at government hospitals.