Bangladesh’s high court has passed an order to Bangladesh Government to take appropriate steps for medical services to emergency critical injured persons in both government and private hospitals across the country.
Under the national Road Safety Strategic Action Plan 2014-2016, the court ordered the government to produce a report on ensuring these emergency medical services for road accident victims.
The ministry of health and road transport and bridges were also given the directive to propose the guidelines for operation and management of the emergency medical services. The service will also include to provide a medical emergency reporting number so that the public awareness is spread through the electronic media and press. Petitioners’ lawyer Sara Hossain and Deputy Attorney General Motaher Hossain Sazu mentioned this objective to the Daily Star.
The HC also issued a rule which mentions that the government will have provide a report within four weeks, if the existing hospitals and clinics fails to provide emergency medical services to the injured and if it is declared illegal.
HC bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Md Iqbal Kabir came up with the order rule after a holding hearing on a writ petition filed that seeks its orders on the government which ensures the emergency medical services by all hospitals , clinics doctors both governmental and private across the country.
Mr. Syed Saifuddin Kamal, a social entrepreneur and of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services trust had filed the petition after a young man called Arafat, a bus helper fell off a bus and was killed when the bus ran over him on the airport road in Dhaka last month. The article “hearts of stone’ published on The Daily Star on January 24, narrated how three prominent private hospitals in the country refused to provide emergency medical services to critically injured Arafat after the accident.
The respondents to the petition are Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges, the Directorate of Health Services and the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
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