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Over 10 per cent road
mishap victims die in
hospitals everyday
Non-availability of facilities, lack
of training support for doctors
are to blame
By DMCH Correspondent
The Independent, 27th May, 2001.
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"Over 10 people out of 100 victims of road accidents, die everyday after being admitted to hospitals in the country, but we the medical professionals don't feel any urgency to tackle the situation", said Prof. Rashid Uddin, eminent neurosurgeon of the country, while speaking at the regional scientific seminar on "Management of Road Traffic Accidents and Violence" at the Dhaka Medical Collage yeserday.
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"Emergency Medical Officers placed in our emergency department have neither training in Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLF) nor are they equipped with medicine and technical facilities they need to do that", said Prof. Shamsuddin Ahmed, former Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rehabilitation Institute and Hospital for the Disabled(RIHD), on the occasion.
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"Most of the deaths after casualty here occur due to delay in starting treatment and it's a shame for us that patients reaching hospitals alive, die due to non availability of facilities in our emergency wards," added Prof. Shamsuddin.
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The number of road accident related casualties is on the rise. A study, conducted by Dr. Shah Alam, Consultant RIHD, showed that about 2,000 patients were admitted to the DMCH, due to road traffic accidents(RTA) in 1995 while the number crossed more than 4,000 in the year 2000. Faulty road design, unfit vehicles, disobedience traffic rules both by the drivers and pedestrians and poor enforcement of law were the causes behind the increase in road accident revealed the study.
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Road accidents and violence had appeared as a new epidemic due to rapid urbanisation, increased motorization and because of political unrest and social chaos, stated Dr. Iqbal Qavi, Assistant Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics of the DMCH. Injury accounted for ten to thirty per cent of hospital admissions while about 7.8 crore people become disabled because of injuries, Dr. Qavi added in his speech.
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Department of Orthopaedics of the DMCH and Bangladesh Orthopaedic Society jointly organised the seminar chaired by Prof. AK Md. Shahidul Islam, Principal of DMC, while Prof. Kazi Shahidul Alam, Director, Medical Education and Manpower Development of the Government of Bangladesh and President of Bangladesh Orthopaedic Society was present as a special guest.
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"Nobody in our medical profession is playing his due role and there is no inter-disciplinary relationship," said Prof Kazi Shahid in his speech about the delay in modernizing the country's medical services.
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Prof. Nurul Alam, Head of the Department of Orthopaedics of the DMCH also spoke as a special guest on this occasion.
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The DMCH casualty ward is the only full-fledged emergency ward in the country, but it lacks trained manpower and there is a huge shortage of facilities. The mortality rate here is more than 4 percent, as was shown by Dr. Rafiqul Islam, Asstt. Prof of Orthopaedic Surgery of RIHD, in his study.
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