Dr M A Quasem, who is the founder director of the hospital and founder of Adhunik (an anti-smoking campaign based organisation) and also involved with many other organisations shared his view about the health care situation of our country with Star Health recently.

First of all, he stressed on poor number and quality of nurses of our country. He said, "It is our failure that we could not produce quality nurses and there is almost no initiative of any government to scale up these health care professionals." He explained that obviously doctors pay little time for the patients, but nurses have to stay with the patients round the clock to support them. This is why, improvement of the quality of nurses is most important. "Our nurses have no recognition in abroad since there is no graduation course in our country for the nurses" he added. He draws the attention of concerned bodies to pay their kind attention in this sector. Because, it is the nurses who can ensure quality health care services.

In comparison to other countries where our people usually seek quality health care services, Dr Quasem opined that our system lags behind due to the poor number of quality nurses.

He also noticed that we do not have good number of specialised doctors in every discipline of medical practice.

Dr Quasem expressed that we need to increase the opportunities of making post graduate doctors (specialised doctors) to serve our people better. He said, "It is really difficult for the government to meet all the demands of the country since we have huge population. There are many private institutes who have earned reputation in their respective fields. If the government permits them to open faculty in those institutes, it would be easier to build skilled health care professionals there."

"There is a common allegation against our doctors that patients experience hardly good behaviour from our doctors", Dr Quasem expressed with grief. "But doctors from India, Thailand and Singapore have good reputation in this field", he added. "To satisfy the patients, our doctors should be careful about this" he suggested. He also recommended to include behavioural science in the medical curriculum.

Dr Quasem draws the attention of the authorities of recently built giant health care providers, who are helping in cost-hike in delivering health care services to think about the people of the country. Instead, he urged them to introduce services that are not available in the country, since they have good set-up. To stabilise the cost, Dr Quasem suggests the government to define criteria to set the cost of the health care facilities in the country.

He also urged the senior and experienced teaching staffs in different medical college hospitals not to leave their noble profession running only for money. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare should also be concerned.

Describing the services of Central Hospital Ltd. Dr Quasem informed that they try hard to maintain standard in all aspects of services, which is reflected in the hospital occupancy. For example, he said, "We even culture the supplied food, utensils of the hospital and routinely check the health status of the hospital staffs to prevent hospital acquired infections among the patients." Dr Quasem urged other hospitals to ensure standard in providing health care services.