Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain has warned that the professional registration of any government doctor found seeing patients privately during official duty hours will be suspended or cancelled.
The warning came at a current affairs briefing held at the Health Ministry conference room on Thursday, according to an official handout.
The minister said a doctor of the 250-bed District Sadar Hospital in Shariatpur, Rajesh Majumder, had been summoned to the ministry on Wednesday after he was found seeing patients at a private chamber at Modern City Hospital in the district during office hours.
He said the doctor will be suspended from his government post and a departmental case will be filed following due procedures.
The process to suspend his professional registration is also underway, the minister said.
Other doctors should learn from the incident, he added.
The minister also said action is being taken against Modern City Hospital in Shariatpur in connection with the matter.
He said intelligence surveillance is being conducted across the country to ensure that government medicines reach the public and that doctors remain present at their workplaces during official hours.
“If any government doctor is found absent from duty in the future, their licence will be suspended and disciplinary action will be taken,” he said.
The minister also said the government plans to recruit around 100,000 field-level health workers in various positions, including midwives, pharmacists and technologists, to improve healthcare services.
Of the planned recruitment, about 80 per cent of the posts will be reserved for women, he added.
