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Kathmandu,Tuesday February 15, 2000 Fagun 03, 2056.
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Birgunj doctors: Meagre service, ample trade
By a Post Reporter
BIRGUNJ, Feb 14 - The fundamental duty of doctors is to serve the sick
people, but the doctors of Birgunj are giving little service and are paying greater
attention to promote their own business these days.
Of the total 50 government doctors working in Birgunj, more than 50 percent
of them have their own clinics, nursing homes, shares in private hospitals and their own
X-ray machines.
Government hospital doctors are not allowed to work in private hospitals.
They need permission from their department if they want to work in private hospitals.
However, more than 60 percent of the doctors employed in Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital
are also employed in the private hospital of Birgunj, Advance Medicare Hospital and
Research Institute, without receiving permission from their department. Moreover, 17
doctors have invested huge amount of money in this private hospital.
The hospital doctors are required to work from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the
hospital. However, they are working less than two hours in the hospitals, complains
president of Civic Society Birgunj Gajendra Dev Dhaku.
Medical Superintendent Dr B.K. Prasad says doctors are habituated to work
only 2 to 3 hours a day in the hospital and do not listen to him even if he insists that
they should work for 4 to 5 hours a day.
The best example of doctor’s business here is provided by the X-ray
machines. Of the total 12 X-ray machines operating in Birgunj, 10 belong to doctors.
Moreover, most of the X-ray machines are cheap and there is possibility of leakage of
radiation as they have not been examined by Automatic Energy Regulatory Board.
A doctor said, on condition of anonymity, that the
machines need to be examined for the sake of public health.
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