Jashore 250-bed General Hospital is undergoing to set up a CT scan machine of advanced quality 128 slices. In the meantime, a CT scan machine has arrived at the hospital. Construction work is currently underway to set up the machine. Superintendent of Jashore 250-bed General Hospital Dr Abul Kalam Azad Litu said that it would be officially inaugurated next December.
Hospital sources said, the patient is increasing pressure in Jashore General Hospital day by day. In view of this, the government upgraded to 250 beds in the year 2003. Later, when the Hospital was declared faculty of the Medical College in the year 2010, the number of patients increased.
In order to treat these patients, the consultant of the medical college under 19 departments are providing daily patient care at the hospital. For better services of patients, different tests were necessary. But there was no digital X-ray machine, CT scan, MRI machine in the hospital. As a result, patients have to be examined from outside private clinics at increased cost.
The Ministry allocated a digital X-ray machine when hospital superintendent Dr Abul Kalam Azad Litu informed this matter to the higher authority from which patients are benefiting. In addition, the ministry has sent a CT scan machine this month, which is ready to set up.
Dr Abul Kalam Azad Litu also said that Jashore 250-bed General Hospital in Khulna Division has been upgraded at first with a quality scan of 128 slices. Although there is a CT scan machine in public and private hospitals, it is limited to 50 slices. Advanced 128-slice CT scan machine allows the patient to visualize blood flow and compression of the blood vessels of the heart and other organs through CT NGO gram. The addition of this machine to the hospital will further the service will go one step further.
The hospital's radiologist, Mritunjay said that when the machine is launched, ordinary patients will have the opportunity to test at Tk 1200 to 1500 or highest only two thousand taka. However, it will cost two thousand taka to four thousand to make this test from the clinics.
Sajjad Kamal, a physician at the hospital's radiology department, said that after the CT scan machine was launched at the hospital, the patients who had past bypass grafts or stunting could be easily checked- after operation. In addition to this, the machine can diagnose with intestinal inflammation, intracranial aneurysm, and whole brain perfusion and bone tests. For this, there should always be a cardiologist and a neuro surgeon in addition to a radiology doctor. He also said that the radiation levels are very low in the latest technology of 128 slices. The machine completes scanning in just 0.3 seconds than any other CT scan machine.