Trauma centres lack emergency services

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Most trauma centres operating along the national highways in Bangladesh are unable to offer emergency services due to the negligence and indifference shown by the authorities.

The piled-up machines under a dust cover inside the emergency department at the trauma centre in the Shahidnagar area under the Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla, along the Dhaka-Chattogram national highway, would give testimony to how ill-equipped it was to offer services to trauma patients.

Health practitioners said that the scenario of the other trauma centres, built along the highways to provide primary treatment to trauma victims across the county, was not very different.

Even the officials of the health and family welfare ministry are in the dark about the condition of the 21 trauma centres in the country and have recently sought an update from the officials concerned to find out their actual condition.