Health risks from carrying birth control pills The women of Puthia, Rajshahi?
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Health risks from carrying birth control pills The women of Puthia, Rajshahi?
It has been alleged that the health care activities of women in rural areas are being disrupted as the Upazila Family Planning doctor in Puthia, Rajshahi has not come to work for four years. Meanwhile, due to the non-coming of the doctor, more than two hundred women in rural areas have been carrying birth control pills on their bodies for a long time. This has become a health risk for hundreds of women in the upazila. According to the Upazila Family Planning Office, this Upazila Family Planning Dr. Mohammad Sarwar Jahan joined on March 23, 2023 and left on August...
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It has been alleged that the health care activities of women in rural areas are being disrupted as the Upazila Family Planning doctor in Puthia, Rajshahi has not come to work for four years. Meanwhile, due to the non-coming of the doctor, more than two hundred women in rural areas have been carrying birth control pills on their bodies for a long time. This has become a health risk for hundreds of women in the upazila. According to the Upazila Family Planning Office, this Upazila Family Planning Dr. Mohammad Sarwar Jahan joined on March 23, 2023 and left on August 1, 2023. With the permission of the Ministry of Health, he is currently working as an anesthesia (anesthesia) doctor in the Rajshahi Mother and Child Welfare Center Emergency Service Department. But he is withdrawing his salary and allowance every month from the Puthia Upazila Family Planning Office. Due to him, the men and women of the area are not getting any benefit in terms of family planning health services. According to a source, since he is holding his upazila post, the district level officer is not able to appoint a doctor in his place. Many doctors in this upazila are eager to work in the family planning office. Meanwhile, although there is a provision for 33 family planning assistants in the upazila, there are currently only 15. No opinion exchange meeting has been held in the rural areas on any birth control issue in the upazila for three months. For a long time, women in the rural areas have been living with birth control devices on their bodies because doctors are not coming. An employee who did not want to be named said that more than two hundred women like Rehena Begum, Shiuli Khatun, Shapla Khatun, Tamnim Khatun, and Aleya Begum are still carrying their birth control devices on their bodies even after their expiration date. Women in the rural areas are constantly coming to the office and contacting us to remove the birth control devices from their bodies. But we have no way out. This device cannot be removed from a woman’s body without a doctor. If a family planning doctor is permanently appointed, this problem will be solved quickly. But doctors are not being appointed due to the negligence of the district officials. When we went to the spot, it was seen that Dr. Mohammad Sarwar Jahan is writing on white paper in his office. Upazila Assistant Family Planning Officer Sohrab Uddin Molla. Due to the absence of Upazila Family Planning Dr. Mohammad Sarwar Jahan for a long time, the MP of Rajshahi-5 (Puthia-Durgapur) constituency, Professor Nazrul Islam Mandal, has recently submitted a written complaint on behalf of the locals. In this regard, Upazila Family Planning Officer Md. Hasanuzzaman Khan said, due to the absence of doctors and staff shortage, we are facing problems in providing field-level family planning services. In this regard, Rajshahi Family Planning Deputy Director Abdul Razzak said, Rajshahi Mother and Child Welfare Center has been kept as an anesthesia (anesthesia) doctor in the emergency service department. Because we do not perform cesarean section on any women at the upazila level. A doctor has been given additional responsibility to remove the birth control from the body of women.