District Hospitals Government flouts High Court directive to set up ICUs, CCUs

The Directorate General of Health Services has yet to set up 30 Intensive Care Unit beds and Coronary Care Unit beds at government hospitals in district headquarters flouting a High Court directive issued in June 2019.

Health services director general Abul Kalam Azad and director Aminul Hasan have also failed to go by a summons issued by the High Court bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam to appear before the court on January 8, 2020 to explain why the failure to comply with the order.

Deputy attorney general Noor Us Sadik said that the two health service bosses even did not cooperate with the attorney general’s office on the issue.

On June 25, 2019 the court asked the directorate to set up the 30 ICU beds and the 30 CCUs beds at government hospitals in district headquarters within 30 days.

After hearing a writ petition, the court also asked Abul Kalam Azad and Aminul Hasan to submit reports on July 28, 2019 on the progress made in the setting up of the ICU and CCU beds.

Had the ICU and CCU beds been set up at government hospitals in district headquarters, the people infected with novel coronavirus in districts could be treated properly, said the writ petitioners Bashir Ahmed, also a Supreme Court lawyer.

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