The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) is going to expand its evening specialists' consultation services in the hospital with the addition of eye and gastroenterology departments in the service.
The university started evening services on Oct 1, first of its kind in the country, with professors and associate professors of seven departments – Medicine, Paediatricts, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Skin and Venereal Diseases, Ear, Nose and Throat, Cardiology, and Physical Medicine – attending patients everyday from 3pm to 6pm.
According to a media release, professors and associate professors of the eye and gastroenterology departments will see patients from Dec 1 as part of the ongoing evening specialists' consultation services.
The service offers specialists' prescription only for Tk 200, which is otherwise Tk 500 to Tk 700 in private chambers.
Vice-chancellor Prof Pran Gopal Datta opening the service on Oct 1 said, "It's an attempt to promote institutional practices in the country," a claim that drew medical analysts' flak.
They earlier told that it is neither an evening outdoor, nor an institutional practice.
"In evening outdoors, you cannot charge more than the usual, and in institutional practices, doctors are not allowed to practice outside hospital," former president of Bangladesh Medical Association Prof Rashid-e-Mahbub earlier said.
The university charges Tk 30 for its morning outdoor services.
The university started evening services on Oct 1, first of its kind in the country, with professors and associate professors of seven departments – Medicine, Paediatricts, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Skin and Venereal Diseases, Ear, Nose and Throat, Cardiology, and Physical Medicine – attending patients everyday from 3pm to 6pm.
According to a media release, professors and associate professors of the eye and gastroenterology departments will see patients from Dec 1 as part of the ongoing evening specialists' consultation services.
The service offers specialists' prescription only for Tk 200, which is otherwise Tk 500 to Tk 700 in private chambers.
Vice-chancellor Prof Pran Gopal Datta opening the service on Oct 1 said, "It's an attempt to promote institutional practices in the country," a claim that drew medical analysts' flak.
They earlier told that it is neither an evening outdoor, nor an institutional practice.
"In evening outdoors, you cannot charge more than the usual, and in institutional practices, doctors are not allowed to practice outside hospital," former president of Bangladesh Medical Association Prof Rashid-e-Mahbub earlier said.
The university charges Tk 30 for its morning outdoor services.
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