Punish them
The Himalayan Times
23 December 2016
Punish them
It
was not surprising to read the news “Illegal health centres apply for
registration” ( THT, 21 Dec. Page 2) at such a time when the doctors have been
found saying that the reports of many such health centres are not reliable.
Finally, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) seems to have realized
this situation where thousands of patients and people have been badly cheated
by these illegally opened and operated health service centres in the three
districts of the valley and in other parties of the country. I have had a bad
experience while I was asked to check my blood sugar level. I found two
different readings of blood sugar from two different lab tests within two days
of interval. It was directly a human rights violence related to getting
reliable health test results for the appropriate treatment.
It
was really encouraging to know that the MOHP has given a strict warning to all
the illegally running health centres which are not properly supervised and
monitored by the concerned authorities to get registered. MoHP must take lawful
action against such health centres for illegally running their business risking
public health and life. Doctors treat the patients based on the finding of the
lab tests and prescribed the medicines accordingly. If the results of the lab
tests are faulty, then the patients will definitely suffer from the wrongly
prescribed medicines. Who knows, many people may have been disabled or died
because of wrong diagnosis. It is heard from time and again the agitated
relatives of the negligence or incompetence of health facilities or doctors do
attack the hospital staffs or vandalize hospital property.
The
concerned authorities need to wake up and start doing strong supervision and
monitoring of these unregistered health centres’ activities to ensure that they
provide reliable health services to the people.
Maharajgunj
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