Bangladesh's hospitals severely lacking ICU facilities: Daily Star columnist

DHAKA - Over 100 days of Covid-19 in Bangladesh have brought with it more than 1,000 recorded cases of coronavirus and over 1,300 recorded deaths in the country.

This suggestion seems to be corroborated by the few funeral service providers in Dhaka who are dealing with burying deceased coronavirus patients. Their records seem to suggest they have already handled 1,000 funerals in the capital alone, although it is not clear whether all of the dead were infected.

Against this terrible backdrop, the death of one five-year-old boy from Chattogram may have eluded your attention. Shaon's father told reporters that the boy immediately started bleeding from his nose, and they rushed him to the CEPZ Hospital in Chattogram, about four kilometres from the scene of the accident, where they refused to treat him.

Was it the accident that killed him, or that desperate 24 kilometres his family travelled in the hopes of keeping Shaon alive? According to his family, he was denied treatment at several hospitals because he was Covid-19 positive, including Labaid Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

In the direst of times, the people of Bangladesh do not have access to emergency medical care unless they can afford to pay for it. During a pandemic, even money is not enough - you need influence as well. A lot of the fury sparked by these recent cases of negligence has been directed at attending doctors, but even within hospitals, there are varying structures of power.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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