During the visit, Amit went to the male and female medicine wards and spoke with patients, including elderly people, about their treatment. He instructed the nurse on duty to contact a doctor from Medicine Unit One immediately and ensure the patient was examined.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Anindya Islam Amit, made a surprise visit to the Jashore 250-bed General Hospital on 13 November 2026. Photo: TBS
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State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Anindya Islam Amit, made a surprise visit to the Jashore 250-bed General Hospital on 13 November 2026. Photo: TBS
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Anindya Islam Amit has expressed dissatisfaction over delays in patient treatment and alleged mismanagement during a surprise visit to Jashore 250-bed General Hospital.
He visited the hospital around 8pm yesterday (13 November), accompanied by party leaders and activists, after attending official programmes in his parliamentary constituency.
During the visit, Amit went to the male and female medicine wards and spoke with patients, including elderly people, about their treatment. He instructed the nurse on duty to contact a doctor from Medicine Unit One immediately and ensure the patient was examined.
“Call Medicine Unit One and tell the doctor there about me. The doctor must see this patient now,” he told the nurse.
He also directed the nurse to ensure that the doctor called him with an update on the patient’s condition within an hour of the examination. “I want a call from the doctor within an hour after examining the patient,” he told nurse Momena Khatun.
At one point, the minister questioned the nurse’s conduct, asking, “Have you just joined? Don’t you know how to speak?”
He also dismissed discussions about whether doctors conducted daily ward rounds, insisting that the doctor in charge of Medicine Unit One be called immediately to examine the patient.
Amit said he was not a doctor but had visited the hospital unexpectedly to oversee the overall quality of patient care and ensure accountability among those responsible.
Contacted over the matter, hospital Superintendent Dr Hossain Shafayat said a doctor was present in the ward during the minister’s visit but was occupied with a patient who had died.
He said the doctor had immediately attended to the patient whose treatment delay was questioned and later submitted a report to the minister. The patient’s condition has since improved considerably, he added.
Despite shortages of beds, medicines and doctors, the hospital authorities are continuing to provide proper treatment to patients, the superintendent claimed.
A video of the incident has drawn attention on social media, where many users have shared it and praised the minister’s intervention.
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