Message from Gonoshasthaya Kendra
Kamayani
You may be aware that Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury is not too well. He has to take two four hour session of Hemodialysis every week.
Hemodialysis is very expensive which makes him sicker. It is beyond the reach of common people. There are approximately 40000 dialysis patient in the Bangladesh now. Dialysis & Transplant is their only treatment option. Transplant is a better option. Unfortunately law is very conservative & inadequate.
There is only around 1100 dialysis machine in whole country of which many are not in operation. Most of the facilities owned by private hospital. Most of the dialysis machines are used for 2-3 sessions per day. Every session cost 3000-8000 BDT and quality is also questionable. Most of these centres do not have minimum safety & quality standards. National accountability is grossly negligible. Trained manpower is also lacking. Most of the centres do not have fulltime Nephrologist, Registrar & skilled technician & nurses.
Gonoshasthaya Kendra is establishing a state of the art Dialysis center with 100 world class dialysis machine. GK planned to have 500 sessions a day. The facility will have 13 bed ICU, 6 bed Positive unit for the Hepatitis positive patients. Necessary renovations & interior decoration is going on. We already open letter of credit for all machines and hopefully by February 2017 we are going to inaugurate it.
To commemorate the inauguration we are proposing a 5-7 days workshop with 150-200 experts and activists. Conference will be held at PHA building in Gonoshasthaya Kendra Savar, where 1st people’s health assembly took place in 2000. Could you please contact our friends to participate and present papers? Some session themes are given below subjected to your suggestions and approval. Please recommend us interested persons who want to participate with their contacts details.
GK will provide all local hospitalities and accommodations.
Session themes:
1) Anatomy of malpractice in health care
2) Economics of Drug production in developed & developing countries, vis-a-vis selling price of Medicines in retail market/pharmacy.
3) Cost of Diagnosis & Treatment of Non Communicable Disease (NCD)
4) What is to be done to make health care affordable?
5) How to reduce irrational therapy- Role of medical education to promote rational therapy in diagnosis, treatment and accountability.
6) Failure of World Health Organization (WHO) to educate professionals to audit own prescription habits and concern for affordable care & patients education.
More suggestions are needed. Please circulate these information.
Regards,
Dr. Mohib Ullah Khondoker
Coordinator
Gonoshasthaya Dialysis Center
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