The health management system of the country faces a big challenge amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

According to the World Health Organization, all kinds of patients infected by Covid-19 virus or non-covid should be treated in hospitals. But unfortunately in Bangladesh, it is now rarely possible to get treatment in any hospital whether it is Covid-19 or not.

Most of the hospitals of the country don't have enough manpower and infrastructureal facilities to serve Covid-19 and non-covid patients equally at a time.

Besides, these hospitals don't have sufficient Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) laboratories, Incentive Care Unit beds and oxygen cylinders which are very urgent for the Covid-19 patients.
It is a common scenario in the hospitals that the people are waiting in a long queue for giving samples for the test of the Covid-19 virus.

Meanwhile, the number of the Covid-19 and the non-covid patients is increasing day by day. Forty-five people died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its briefing on Friday.

The death toll now stand sat 1,388 and the death rate 1.32 percent, Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General (Administration) of DGHS, said during the briefing.

Nearly 3243 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The latest figures take the total number of infections in the country to 1,05,535.

It has been reported that everyday a large number of non-covid patients are being refused to get treatment in the hospitals due to lack of manpower or beds or other reasons. The situation is getting worse day by day. The common people are getting frustrated.

An Additional Secretary of the Food Ministry, Gautam Aich Sarker, died recently after he was turned away by a number of private hospitals when he went there for admission. The government official was suffering from kidney disease.

Gautam's daughter Susmita Aich alleged that her father apparently died without treatment after he managed to get admitted to the Kurmitola General Hospital. There are so many untold stories like that.
In view of this a High Court bench recently gave 11-point guidelines to the government. But later the Appellate Division upheld only three of the guidelines passed by the High Court.

The Health Ministry formed 17-member National Technical Advisory Committee which suggested the government to take some steps to resolve this kind of problems. But the suggestions were not getting any response.

Mohammad Shahidullah, a member of the National Technical Advisory Committee and also the President of the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council, recently said, "We hope that the government will take steps soon to implement our recommendations."