Burn patients to get treatment at upazila level: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said hergovernment is working to reach burn treatment at upazila level, urging all concerned to launch a well-planned awareness campaign about safety measures on preservation and use of flammable substances.

"We're taking measures to spread burn treatment at upazila level," she said while opening the Sixth International Conference on Plastic Surgery-2022 and "Mujib Corner" and "Bangabandhu Gallery" at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) here.

She joined the function virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence in the city as Society of Plastic Surgeons of Bangladesh (SPSB) organised it.

The prime minister said all the upazilas have health complexes and the government is considering equipping those with burn treatment facilities.

She said her government has taken a plan to establish separate and self-reliant burn and plastic surgery unit in each of the division aimed at reaching specialised treatment to the people's doorsteps.

Referring to setting up a 100-bed plastic surgery and burn unit in Faridpur district, she opined that each of the largest districts requires such unit.

The prime minister heavily came down on the BNP-Jamaat alliance for killing people carrying out arson attacks in 2013-2014 in the name of movement, saying, "They never do politics for the welfare of the people."

At that time, there was no modern facility for giving treatment to the burnt people, she said, adding that her government set up a 50-bed burn unit in the Dhaka Medical College (DMC).