Every bed in the hospital is full of patients. Extra cots
have been placed in the corridors. In some places, treatment is being given on
mats spread across the floor. More than a hundred patients are waiting outside
a doctor’s room. The operating theater is ready, but there is no anesthesia
specialist. A multi-million-taka X-ray machine has been installed, but it has
remained idle for months because there is no technologist.
This is not the picture of just one hospital. It reflects
the re...