Railway Hospital located in the CRB area of Chattogram is providing advanced medical services to all people. Specialist doctors, nurses and health workers are being recruited for this under the government initiative.
The hospital has recently been reorganized as a general hospital. On April 11, Railway Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan visited the hospital.
It has been opened to the general public as well as railway officials and employees and their families. Now patients can get medical services at the outpatient department of the hospital by purchasing a ticket for Tk 5 and get free medicines.
Patients who come to the outpatient department of the hospital for treatment said that they are happy to get medical services at a low cost. However, they do not get all types of medicines from this hospital. However, they get some medicines for free.
Chattogram Civil Surgeon Dr. Jahangir Alam said that the Ministry of Health has appointed 19 specialist doctors and 6 nurses for this hospital. If it is fully operational, the pressure on Chattogram Medical will be reduced to some extent. Railway hospitals will be jointly managed by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Railways. This hospital has been renamed 'Railway General Hospital-Chattogram'.
He said that the hospital will provide services in the departments of Orthopaedics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medicine, Skin and Venereal Diseases, Cardiology, ENT, Dental and Surgery.
There will also be modern laboratory and radiology facilities. Currently, the hospital's outpatient service has been launched for everyone and the indoor service will be launched in phases.
Railway (East) Region Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ibn Safi Abdul Ahad said that so far 11 specialist doctors and 8 medical officers have been added to provide services in the outpatient department of the hospital. There are also plans to increase the quality of services by adding more doctors.
Now only outdoor medical activities will be conducted. However, it will take some time to start indoor. To start indoor, we need beds for patients to eat and drink. All these things will take some time. We will have to hire a contractor for food. So now outdoor activities will be conducted from 8 am to 2 pm every day.
