Sources said private practice and private clinics ordinance, 1982 was formulated to ensure quality health services at a minimum profit but private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres were set up across the country without following the rule at the end of 1980s.
?Government monitoring on private health care organisations has been totally absent for a long time. So, the violation of private health care control rule has become the norm with the owners of private hospitals, clinics and health-related institutions. They are charging high fees for different health services,? said public health expert Dr Muhammad Abdus Sabur.
According to a health bulletin published by health directorate in 2010, health expenditure in private sector was 49 percent in 1997 while it rose to 60 percent in 2000 and 74 percent in 2006.
Health Right Movement President Dr Rashid-E-Mahbub said privately-owned health care institutions are charging different and high rates for same service across the country. Sufferings of patients are mounting day by day in the private hospitals and clinics, he added The existing private health care control rule needs to be amended immediately so that all private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres will charge equally for same service and the organisations can be penalised for anomalies, Dr Rashid said.
Health Directorate sources said 2,800 private hospitals and clinics have registrations from DG Health while four thousand registered diagnostic centres are now running in the country. But the real number is much higher than it.
Dr Momtaz Uddin, director (hospital) of health directorate told daily sun that private health care rule could be amended within a short span of time so that lower-middle class and middle class can afford those.
Malaysian private health care model has been planned to be replicated in the country. A committee has been formed in this regard to set up a pro-people model in the country, Dr Momtaz added.
Source: daily-sun.com
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