The news published in a national daily newspaper recently which read, ‘Seven employees including two fake doctors of Crescent Hospital, a private hospital in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur, were sentenced to different jail terms today on charges of providing wrong treatment’ caught my attention and set me writing this. I was horrified and I am sure, so is everyone to have gone through the news because it didn’t happen in a remote village that nobody could find out the culprits but it happened in the capital city of Bangladesh. How dare and desperate they are!
I would like to thank RAB and other Govt officials to be able to nab these heinous criminals. They raided this fake hospital with fake doctors with genuine brokers who used to convince helpless sick people and their relatives to come to this hospital so that the fake hospital could earn illegal money from this poor helpless people and so did the brokers.
There was a 6-year old patient named Samia who came to this hospital with a fractured leg, wearing brace and with a hope of better treatment. Her poor mother already paid these fake doctors 3.5 lakh Taka having borrowed from NGO with the fake assurance that Samia would be fine very shortly. But in reality, Samia’s condition started getting worse day by day. But the fake doctors and unscrupulous staf didn’t let this little girl leave their fake hospital; rather confined her over there.
Look at the heart rendering picture of six-year old, Samia! How could a human being be so cruel to a six-year old baby ONLY for earning illegal money by putting her through severe mental and physical pain while her physical condition was deteriorating?
Now let’s think about the mother. She had already exhausted with her borrowed money and fake hospital was asking for more 1.5 lakh Taka for fake treatment which she didn’t have and moreover, fake hospital with their muscle, not letting her leave the hospital.
Again RAB and other Govt official really deserve hearty thanks from all of us to nab these culprits, fine them and jailed them for different terms. But let’s talk about the aftermath. This helpless mom and her baby; what are they going to do next? They lost all their borrowed money. How they are going to survive and continue the treatment of six-year old, Samia? Will this lovely kid be okay and able to run again? Will there be any follow-up?
The building has been sealed off? Who owns the building? If it is the same man who used to run the fake hospital, then it is the same person but if not, then the real owner has to be brought under light and an intense interrogation is needed to dig out whether he was also associated with them.
Fake doctors and staff are nabbed and are awarded with short time imprisonment? After that? Is there any guarantee that after their being free, they will not start committing these kind of crime again? For that, do we have huge number of ethics-based counseling sessions which might help them get back to normal life. End of the day, they are also human being with perhaps children at home. Conscience needs to be awaken. That’s the lone place inside the human body once successfully touched, one can make 180 degree turn from bad to good. This is something where there is plenty of rooms to work on. Nobody is born criminal.
Last but not the least, Nurun Nabi, the mastermind culprit and owner of the fake hospital is on the run. Our smart police with their smart technology won’t take much time to arrest this barbaric man, I do believe. He REALLY deserves an exemplary punishment which will leave a mark for the would-be wrong doers so that they get a clear message what will also happen to them. Bangladesh has got tough rules and laws. What is needed is its proper implementation to set good example for a healthy society.
Zia Hasan
Communication Trainer & Public Speaker
Published in The Daily Sun on 3rd April, 2018:
http://www.edailysun.com/home/next_page/7#tab1
