MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH
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UPDATED 07 December 2003
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MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH
Action on Medical Negligence and Crime
Campaigning for Victims of Medical Crime and Negligence
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Graphic Main Page:
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Campaign Page:
http://www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/CampaignForAction.html
Victim Photos & Stories:
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Reference Web Sites:
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Related News & Articles:
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Contact: Moderator-Editor: Jahiruddin Ahmed
E-mail: medicalsafeguard@yahoo.com
MEDICAL SAFEGUARD is aimed at protecting medical cares from the evil forces. It is not engaged in a ‘witch-hunt’ against medical professionals, it is committed in changing attitudes and systems which give rise to incompetence and negligence and within which rogue and incompetent physicians, surgeons and other associate professionals and industries can thrive.
Everyone knows, as in other walks of life, unintentional mistakes happen all the time, because,
doctors and other medical professionals are human after all. Being human, every doctor makes occasional errors, especially when under immense pressure, but gross negligence, or undisclosed mistake-led deliberate harm, of course, is harder to explain and is indefensible.
MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH
Campaigns to Protect Medical Cares from
Crime, Ethical Violation and Mal-administration
It is an Awareness and Action Campaign on Medical Security, Negligence, Cheating, Wastage of Resources, Criminal Proceedings, and Enforcement of Human Rights and Consumer Protection Laws.
MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH is organised to act as support and pressure group to the benefit of the people who are supposed to get the delivery of medical aid fully appropriate in terms of basic standard form and norm which are universally accepted, and to bring all medical aid related activities into full transparency and legal binding.
It campaigns to ensure medical atmosphere in compliance with the constitutional rights and privileges, and the United Nations charters and other international agreements and understandings reached/endorsed/ratified by the UN member countries, the medical professionals and their national and international associations and other organisations, the medical aid related organisations and the industry groups, the human rights bodies, the consumer rights organisations, the law reform and legal action agencies, and the national and international regulating authorities.
The organisation’s monthly publication
MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH
It is designed to publish among others, the following core area information on Bangladesh’s medical cares:
News on faults, mishaps and undisclosed error-led disasters in medical treatment; and also on outstanding positive sides of the stories that can stimulate the endeavour of the present day world’s most respected and dedicated medical professionals.
Monitoring of criminal offences, negligences, misconducts, unethical and illegal practices, unfair trades, cheating, frauds, bribes, abuses, etc, that darken the humanitarian efforts of the noble profession.
Verification, investigation and studies on doctors’ in-and-out patient treatments, chamber consultation results, referrals, hospital and clinical performances, diagnostic activities, examinations and tests, laboratory standard and accuracy and prices, pharmaceutical manufacturing qualities and marketing offensives.
Providing helpline assistances to the medical victims, and organising development supports on fatal issues and penalties, proceedings on ethical and standard violations, and legal and administrative actions improvements by campaigns, discussions and awareness programmes, and creating public opinion in favour of a safety net in medical aid systems and its service deliveries and other peripherals, to protect the medical consumers, and the patients in general, from all sorts of harms and crimes.
Monthly
MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH disseminated news and views, in most objective form, reaches concerned professionals, medical establishments, regulating bodies, government functionaries and Members of Parliament, healthcare and human rights activists, legal practitioners, UN agencies and donours, national and international watchdog organisations, leading social workers and politicians, and the Press.
COPYRIGHT
Any published material, or any part thereof, can be reproduced, or quoted, in any form by any publication, organisation or individual, without any prior permission, but it would be highly
appreciated, if a copy of the publication could be sent to the Moderator-Editor Jahiruddin Ahmed, MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH.
CONTACT
Moderator-Editor: Jahiruddin Ahmed
E-mail: medicalsafeguard@yahoo.com
Main website page: http://www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/main.html
POB Dilkusha 7275, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-9116361
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Helpline
Nothing to worry when it comes to complaint
SO WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
1. The first step is for you to try to sort it out within your practice or hospital. Ask the doctors, nurses or any other authorities involved to talk it through with you.
2. You, or someone on your behalf, can also take a complaint to the designated complaints official in the practice or hospital or in your local Health Authority/Upa-Zila (Sub-District) Health Administrator or Zila (District) Civil Surgeon/Deputy Commissioner or Director General of Health.
3. If you need help, talk to your locally available advisory services/ Chairman of Union Parishad (Council)/Ward Commissioner of Metropolitan City/Chairman of Paurashava (Municipality)/Chairman of Upa-Zila Parishad/MP/legal advisors.
4. If 'local resolution' fails, you can request the Secretary, Ministry of Health, for an independent review.
5. Failing this you can appeal to the Health Minister.
6. However, if you are looking for compensation or any other legal action you may want to go directly to a solicitor specialising in medical work.
LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE?
1. If you have a complaint, and you are looking for a direct action, ask someone who is a knowledgeable person and nearest to you, whether there is any human rights-related state-provided legal support institution/commission and/or any constituent independent investigative-cum-disciplinary body/agency to accept petition/complaint to go for direct investigation and taking disciplinary and compensatory action, beyond conventional hassles.
2. Look for whether there is any direct legal-action redressal arbitration tribunal or fully powerful redressal court, beyond conventional judiciary systems, to hear your complaint and award quick judgement.
3. Also look for a medical related or consumer rights or human rights related expert lawyer who can apprise you of the available laws and prospect of the case, taking into consideration the availability of favourable medical records and witnesses, which cannot be ensured unless or otherwise regulated by necessary laws with supports from a legal support institution/commission and monitored-supervised by its investigative, compensatory and disciplinary action based constituent agency.
DISCLAIMER
All content within MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH is provided for general information only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your own doctor or any other health care professional or legal advisor or any others. The MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH is not responsible or liable for anything undesired happened based on the content of the MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH website/webpages. The MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH is not liable for the contents of any external internet sites listed, nor does it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of the sites. Always consult your own Doctor/GP/Legal Adviser/Solicitor if you are in any way concerned about your health or any other related matters.
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UPDATED 07 December 2003
This is MEDICALSAFEGUARD campaign web page:
http://www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/CampaignForAction.html
Medical Safeguard Bangladesh
Action on Medical Negligence and Crime
Campaigning for Victims of Medical Crime and Negligence
Main Page: www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/main.html
Graphic Main Page: www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/GraphicMain.html
Campaign Page: www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/CampaignForAction.html
Victim Photos & Stories: www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/VictimPhotoMishapStory.html
Reference Web Sites: www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/ReferenceWebSites.html
Related News & Articles: www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/RelatedNewsArticles.html
Legal Actions & Claims: www.oocities.org/medicalsafeguard/LegalactionsClaims.html
Contact: Moderator-Editor: Jahiruddin Ahmed -- E-mail: medicalsafeguard@yahoo.com
Campaign for Action
WHAT BANGLADESH URGENTLY NEEDS TODAY TO FIGHT
AGAINST THRIVING DANGEROUS MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
IS ACTION TO ELIMINATE LEGAL INJUSTICE-IMMORALITY.
Everyone Raises Voice
ESTABLISH SAFE AND EQUAL MEDICARE
ENSURE
RIGHTS TO OPEN AND EQUAL ACCESS TO
HONEST, SAFE, AND APPROPRIATE HEALTH CARES.
GOVERNMENT OR PRIVATE MEDICARES, ALL MUST BE FAIR AND SAFE.
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FORCE TO DISCLOSE MEDICAL MISHAP
Ensure
that all the government and private medical professionals are obliged, without prejudice to their legal rights, and compelled under law to make a full and immediate disclosure of a medical mishap, in order to preserve the life and protect the future health and well being and other human rights of the patient.
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STOP DECEPTION
Ensure
that the medical professionals, both the government and the private, are not cheating the patients by introducing themselves in vague term, such as, holder of many tricky fat and foreign certificates and memberships, specialist in sexual diseases, and other similar indistinct illnesses, diagnoses and examinations.
Also ensure protecting the patients and other medical consumers from deceptions by the pharmaceutical and other medical related manufacturers and traders, who bribe the physicians in the name of commissions and gifts, and sponsoring medical events, feasts and foreign trips to promote their sales, and also those who attract customers by deceiving illusion and unfair publicity and trade practices, and also those who sell useless or harmful stuff.
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USE CONSENT TO PROTECT RIGHTS
Ensure
that the purpose of medical consent does not only protect the medical professionals against a charge of assault - since medical professionals are the only people (apart from defence forces) who can legally ‘attack’ someone with a knife.
Ensure that consent also protects the rights of the patient. A general right to consultation and consent is of no use. It needs to be stated in precise terms to prevent fault and ensure punishment of the offenders, it needs teeth in the shape of legal and disciplinary measures, if it is ignored or breached.
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END DISCRIMINATION
Ensure
anti-discrimination measures to recognise and give specific mention to medical negligence victims as a marginalised group (or in general terms to persons in unfavourable situations and environments and to persons in dispute with a state agency).
This should cover, among others, all under-privileged people, neglected hamlet communities, socially deprived and disadvantageous group of people, vulnerable women, children, elderly people and handicapped persons, all under trial and jailed prisoners, arrested persons, police or military-paramilitary confined persons, political detainees, condemned convicts, and prisoners of war and other hostilities.
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ENFORCE ACTIONS
Ensure
healthcares and human rights by setting up a constitutionally formed/Parliament approved medical related legal support institution/commission (to be headed by a retired chief justice/judge of the supreme court who would be assisted by two other retired judges of the supreme court, and at least one of whom should be a woman, even if she is a retired district judge), and within its umbrella, an independent strong and powerful action body/agency (to be headed by a retired judge of the supreme court and two retired judges of the high court, and at least one of whom should be a woman, even if she is a retired district judge), with monitoring, advisory, investigative, compensatory and disciplinary powers to effectively deal with poor practice, incompetence, negligence and crime in both the government and the private sector healthcares, where the services and others are rendered and provided free of cost or charged to be paid.
Ensure justice in healthcares and related human rights by setting up of district-national-supreme 3-tier redressal courts and district-national 2-tier arbitration tribunals for quick hearing and disposal of medical related complaints and cases.
The medical related legal support institution and its accompanying laws should enforce government’s medical emergency and risk management strategies, enforce maintenance of permanently registered medical treatment records (by mandatory simultaneous recording of patient’s condition and treatment along with patient’s moveable clipped file records in loose sheets of paper or removable file records stored in computer disks) and patient property rights to access the records, enforce the independent action body’s power of supervisions and disciplinary actions including hearing of complaints and examining the involved parties, and enforce the operations, trials and executions of the judgements of the redressal courts and arbitration tribunals, in addition to the existing conventional judicial systems.
The relevant laws must ensure that the patients’ medical treatment records maintained in a hospital are the properties of the concerned hospital but all those are easily and instantly accessible when any patient desires access to all those records.
The laws must make all public and private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic laboratories bound to accommodate every patient as a partner in sharing property rights by providing full, easy and unrestricted access of patients to their medical treatment records and examination data without causing any simplest harassment. And to comply with that, all records must be stored by the hospitals, clinics and laboratories, in a well supervised and secured record rooms, for at least 4 years for an adult and 21 years for a child patient, for any patient’s (or his/her legal guardian’s, dependents’ or authorised representative/solicitor/investigator’s free access (including reading and copying).
No person shall obstruct a patient, or his/her legal guardian or dependents or authorised representative/solicitor/investigator or withhold or destroy, conceal or refuse to furnish any information and/or thing required by the patient, or his/her legal guardian, dependents, or representative/solicitor/investigator for the purposes of the investigation and obtaining information and/or required thing.
2-tier redressal arbitration tribunals - coupled with a personal injury (and fault-led death and other disaster and loss) compensation agency to be operated by the legal support institution/commission’s independent and powerful action body/organisation - can be of great help to quickly deal with cases where the victim, or his/her legal guardian, or dependents or authorised representative/solicitor/investigator, cant or does not want to pursue legal action. The lower level arbitration tribunal can be based in the district headquarters, while higher-level arbitration tribunals can be set up in the metropolitan cities. In cases of full-scale legal action litigations in 3-tier redressal courts, all supportive laws, including those of human rights and consumer protection laws, must ensure that it involves least expenses and times and nominal procedures.
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GO FOR HIGH EFFICIENT COURT
Ensure
medical consumers’ protection by constituting the 3-tier redressal courts. Such redressal courts are operating in other countries, including our closest neighbour, with a greater degree of success. Consumer protection laws, covering both the government and the private sectors, should ensure justice to medical consumers by constituting the 3-tier redressal courts.
The first or bottom of the 3-tier redressal courts, can be a 5-7 member local district bench headed by the district judge/an additional district judge (in absence, a retired district judge/additional district judge). The second or middle of the 3-tier redressal courts, can be a 7-11 member national bench headed by a judge of the high court (in absence, a retired judge of the high court) including two more retired judges of the high court, one of whom a woman (a woman district judge or additional district judge, if no woman judge from the high court is available) for review and hearing of appeal. The third and the highest of the 3-tier redressal courts, can be a Supreme Court bench of three judges (one sitting supreme court judge to preside, while others are two retired supreme court judges) for terminal hearing of any appeal made.
At all levels, the district and national benches and the Supreme Court bench, the other members may be nominated from the respectable professionals and personalities, such as, practicing/operating senior level educationists, journalists, lawyers, physicians/surgeons, litterateurs, philanthropists, social workers, renowned jurors, distinguished retired public/private officials, and honourary public/private officials of highly respectable positions.
The chief justice, or his/her (three or more) representatives (current sitting or retired judges of the Supreme Court) can nominate the district, national and supreme court level panels of bench members (not exceeding 12 for each of the district benches, not exceeding 20 for a national bench and not exceeding 10 for the supreme court bench) and the panel of heads of the bench (not exceeding 4 for each of the district benches, not exceeding10 for a national bench and not exceeding 6 for the supreme court bench). The chief justice can constitute an additional bench in a district and more than two additional benches in national level, when circumstances demand for such additional benches.
The nominated members appearing in the panels to form benches in all levels will be asked to join a bench for a particular trial/review in order of seniority by rank and status in service as a judge, and in order of seniority by widely recognised rank, status and position/outstanding merit and qualification/high distinction and extraordinary achievement/elderly age/fitness and suitability/instant availability/etc, without any prejudice. At least one woman member will be included in every bench. Such appointments should be irrevocable.
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PUNISH OFFENDERS
Ensure
appropriate and exemplary punishment when any government or private medical professional or hospital/clinic or manufacturer/marketer-seller of medicine and other medical related goods and services is found guilty.
Appropriate legal measures should lay down the procedure to be followed in redressing grievances of the complainant medical patients and consumers, or their legal guardians, dependents, or representatives/solicitors/investigators, and provide a maximum possible time limit of 30 working days for the disposal of their complaints, considering a complainant’s redress and need for timely future hospitalisation for any further medical treatment.
Any appeal to a higher bench of the 3-tier redressal courts must be filed within 7 working days of judgement, and it must be heard within 7 working days of filing.
The legal measures should empower the benches to impose a sentence of imprisonment, even rigorous imprisonment for up to 14 years, or with a fine, for up to Taka3,000,000 (approximately US$51,000), or both, or to issue orders to the offender/opposite party to bear the responsibility of losses, sustained by the patient/consumer or dependents, or to remove the redress of the patient/consumer or to replace the services/goods or to return the prices or charges paid for the services/goods and or to pay compensation for any loss or injury suffered by the patient/consumer due to the fault, negligence, misconduct, deception, mislead or evil influence of the opposite party, in respect of deficient services or defective goods or deception or misleading or cheating or influence by creating an impression that the offered services and goods and introductions are acceptable, essential and indispensable, or by creating a specialist impression with gimmick.
It must empower the redressal benches or any other appropriate authority or tribunal to enforce its order in the same manner as if it were a decree or order made by the Court, and in the event of its inability to execute it, to send such order, within 10 working days, to a court of competent jurisdiction for its execution by the following 7 working days.
A complaint or case can be lodged with the redressal court/arbitration tribunal in the home district of the complainant or in the district of the incident any time normally within 3 years of the incident, and in some reasonable cases within 10 years of the incident, considering the time factor of the impact of the medical faults/mishaps/negligences, which may take several years to surface. The court/tribunal will hear the complaints within 3 working days and will send summon to the opposite party by registered post by the following 3 working days. The opposite party must respond the summon within 7 days of the receipt of it and may seek a 7 day period for preparation to appear before the court/tribunal for hearing. In case of ‘no response’ the court/tribunal will send the summon three times, in three consecutive working weeks, and will finally send the summon through Police department giving a further time of 7 working days for locating the opposite party and hand over the summon.
The court/tribunal will announce its verdict exparte, if the opposite party does not turn up, even after sending the summon through Police, and will go for execution of the judgement immediately after expiry of the 7 working day appeal period. Any complaint or case dismissed due to absence of the complainant can be restored within 90 days on sufficient reasons. Any or all stipulated periods for submissions, actions and executions can be extended by one to15 working days on highly reasonable grounds, when any redressal bench/arbitration tribunal considers to be appropriate under certain circumstances.
The redressal laws must empower the 2-tier redressal arbitration tribunals to award judgements, under certain circumstances, similar to those of the 3-tier redressal courts, and execute those judgements through reviews by the redressal Supreme Court bench. This will establish and uphold the powers and jurisdictions as well as the effectiveness of the redressal arbitration tribunals. None will try to escape its verdicts.
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STOP ESCAPE
Ensure
that the justice cannot be ignored or denied. The appropriate legal measures should empower the benches of the 3-tier redressal courts (or any other legal authority or arbitration tribunal) to impose a sentence of imprisonment of not less than 30 days extending to 3 years or with a minimum fine of Taka5,000 (approx. US$85) extending up to Taka25,000 (approx.US$425) or with both, for failure to comply with any order made by any of the benches.
The appropriate legal reform/amendment should empower the benches of the 3-tier redressal courts or other legal authorities/tribunals to order payment of compensation by the complainant to the opposite party if the petition appears to be frivolous or vexatious in nature. The amount shall not be more than Taka25,000.
The legal support institution/commission’s constituent independent and powerful action body/agency will provide all ground services for compensations. This organisation, with its full range monitoring, supervision, investigative, compensatory and disciplinary authorities will act as lifeblood for the effective functioning of the redressal courts and arbitration tribunals. The courts and tribunals will have direct full access to the highly potential resources of the disciplinary agency.
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ESTABLISH JUSTICE AT AFFORDABLE COST
Ensure
justice at ease and least possible cost. A plain paper petition without a court fee should be sufficient to seek justice at district level bench of the 3-tier redressal court. Court fee for appeal at national and Supreme Court levels should not be more than Taka10 (approx. 17 US cents) and Taka50, respectively. There will be no need to pay anything for the 2-tier redressal arbitration tribunals.
However, a cost recovery order can be imposed by a judgement on a deliberately harassing appeal, and the penalty amount should be maximum Taka10,000 (approx. US$170), or maximum rigorous imprisonment of 15 days in case of non-payment, or both, in addition to the punishment, if any, i.e., censure, fine or jail-term, or all, awarded in the case and or non-compliance with the order of the judgement by the 3-tier redressal court or 2-tier arbitration tribunals. The collected amount can be shared equally by the collecting bench/tribunal and the victimised person/dependents.
A petition of complaint or appeal can be submitted to the appropriate court/tribunal by hand or registered post. An authorised official or clerk will immediately process the petition for action to be taken by the concerned judge, and will also acknowledge receipt of the petition on the spot when demanded by the petitioner, or send an acknowledgement of receipt the same day (or the following working day on any special reason) by registered post or official messenger. The court will send summon to the opposite party/parties and witnesses by official messenger or registered post by the following 2 days of processing/taking action. The judge will personally supervise all works/activities at his/her bench/tribunal/court/office, and will take disciplinary action immediately when it comes to error or mismanagement or corruption.
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USE HEALTH TAX
PAY REDRESSAL EXPENSES
Ensure
all legal and protective coverages in favour of safe and appropriate medical cares by channeling funds earned from taxes, duties and VATs charged on medical consumptions and spendings on medical treatments and medicines. Help publish/make white all revenues earned on medical cares and professions, services, business and industries related to medical cares.
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Reference Web Sites:
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Related News & Articles:
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Nothing to worry when it comes to complaint
SO WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
1. The first step is for you to try to sort it out within your practice or hospital. Ask the doctors, nurses or any other authorities involved to talk it through with you.
2. You, or someone on your behalf, can also take a complaint to the designated complaints official in the practice or hospital or in your local Health Authority/Upa-Zila (Sub-District) Health Administrator or Zila (District) Civil Surgeon/Deputy Commissioner or Director General of Health.
3. If you need help, talk to your locally available advisory services/ Chairman of Union Parishad (Council)/Ward Commissioner of Metropolitan City/Chairman of Paurashava (Municipality)/Chairman of Upa-Zila Parishad/MP/legal advisors.
4. If 'local resolution' fails, you can request the Secretary, Ministry of Health, for an independent review.
5. Failing this you can appeal to the Health Minister.
6. However, if you are looking for compensation or any other legal action you may want to go directly to a solicitor specialising in medical work.
LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE?
1. If you have a complaint, and you are looking for a direct action, ask someone who is a knowledgeable person and nearest to you, whether there is any human rights-related state-provided legal support institution/commission and/or any constituent independent investigative-cum-disciplinary body/agency to accept petition/complaint to go for direct investigation and taking disciplinary and compensatory action, beyond conventional hassles.
2. Look for whether there is any direct legal-action redressal arbitration tribunal or fully powerful redressal court, beyond conventional judiciary systems, to hear your complaint and award quick judgement.
3. Also look for a medical related or consumer rights or human rights related expert lawyer who can apprise you of the available laws and prospect of the case, taking into consideration the availability of favourable medical records and witnesses, which cannot be ensured unless or otherwise regulated by necessary laws with supports from a legal support institution/commission and monitored-supervised by its investigative, compensatory and disciplinary action based constituent agency.
DISCLAIMER
All content within MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH is provided for general information only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your own doctor or any other health care professional or legal advisor or any others. The MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH is not responsible or liable for anything undesired happened based on the content of the MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH website/webpages. The MEDICALSAFEGUARD / MEDICAL SAFEGUARD BANGLADESH is not liable for the contents of any external internet sites listed, nor does it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of the sites. Always consult your own Doctor/GP/Legal Adviser/Solicitor if you are in any way concerned about your health or any other related matters.
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