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Pvt diagnostic centres cheat patients
Our Correspondent . Patuakhali

PEOPLE belonging to all walks of life have demanded of the government to fix rate of different medical tests at the private diagnostic centres that have sprung up at different upazilas in Patuakhali.
   People by and large have complained that the diagnostic centres have been cheating the poor people in name of different tests.
   Citing an example, some assistants of these centres said that only Tk 6 was needed for the blood-sugar test of a patient. But most of the private diagnostic centres were realising Tk 100 for this test. A routine urine test involved an expenditure of Tk 8 only. But Tk 50 to 60 was extracted from a patient for this simple test, according to them.
   Allegations have it that doctors of these centres advise their patients for many unnecessary tests only to take commission. The owners of the diagnostic centres have to pay 30 to 40 per cent of their income from each test to the doctors as commission.
   Majority of the doctors working with different health centres in the private sectors are government employees and they are attached with the state run hospital and health complexes across the district. The doctors spend more time in private clinics than at their actual places of work only to earn money violating all ethics.
   The owners of the private clinics allure the doctors of the government hospitals and health complexes by offering them computer, television set, refrigerator, and other costly gifts, it is alleged.
   When contacted, deputy commissioner of Patuakhali, AGM Moshiul Alom, said the administration was aware of this problem.
   He further said that he would hold a meeting with the civil surgeon soon to discuss this problem for finding out a solution.
   Most of the 41 diagnostic centres across the district are unregistered. Of them, 13 are located in the district town and the rest 28 at the six upazilas.

Indigenous children in Narail
deprived of their rights
Home Desk

NEARLY 90 per cent children of the indigenous community living in some pockets of Narail do not go to primary schools because of the appalling poverty of their parents.
   These children supplement the income of their poor parents by working in different sectors. Most of the children help their parents by pulling rickshaws.
   This was the finding of a survey carried out by the Children’s Express, a news agency for children run by the Mass-Line Media Centre.
   The survey report said that 300 families of the indigenous community live at Zaminder Para, Halath Para and Hatir Bagan. Their ancestors were brought to Narail by some English traders for indigo cultivation. They live in slums or on abandoned lands.
   Their ancestral lands were forcibly occupied by the musclemen as they did not possess any document of their landed property, the survey report added.
   The report further said that only five per cent of the people of the indigenous community completed primary education, but none could still cross the secondary level since the independence of the country.
   The indigenous people earn their living by working as day labourer. Their daily income is around taka 40 to 50. They cannot think of sending their children to schools due to grinding poverty.

Nine injured over land dispute
Our correspondent . Madaripur

AT LEAST nine persons were injured in a clash between two rival groups over land dispute at village Kardi under Madaripur sadar upazila on Friday noon.
   The police quoting locals said there was a longstanding dispute between Malek Howladar and Razzaq Howladar over the demarcation of two pieces of land. Both the groups on Friday noon were locked in an altercation over the issue and at one stage attacked each other.
   They used lethal weapons during the clash, injuring nine persons. Of the injured, five persons were admitted to Madaripur Sadar Hospital. They are Marzina Begum, 30, Nasir Howladar, 30, Olibur Rahman, 47, Abdul Hakim, 30, and Matiur Rahman, 25.
   Razzaq group registered a case with the police against their rival group.

Robbers loot valuables
Our Correspondent . Comilla

ROBBERS in the guise of police looted valuables from a Comilla house early Saturday.
   Locals said about 20 to 25 bandits entered the house of one Abdus Sobhan of village Chandora under Chauddagram upazila by breaking open the door at about 3:00am. The criminals looted Tk 60 thousand in cash and valuables worth about Tk 5 lakh.
   The armed men stabbed Nuru Miah, 65, his wife Shamna Begum, 55, and their son Ali Akkas, 32, and daughter Shafali Begum, 30. They were taken to hospital.

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