Prescriptions still written in a dentist's name 18 months after his death: clinic sealed

A dental clinic's real capital is its registered dentist. An April 2022 report in Chandpur Times found that the signboard and prescriptions of 'Modern Dental Care' in the Lakshmi Narayan Market of Hajiganj bazar carried the names of three dentists. One of them had died a year and a half earlier, but the signboard and visiting cards in his name were still in use, and prescriptions were still being written in his name. According to the report, patients were being seen by the dead dentist's wife and his college-going son, who wrote 'Doctor' before their names without any valid certificate. The wife could show some papers for homeopathic treatment but could not show any valid dental papers. After the report was published, on 11 April, in a joint drive by the upazila administration and the health department, a mobile court fined the owner of the business Tk 20,000 and hung two padlocks on it to keep it closed until all its papers were made valid. This is the consequence of carrying on the business without bringing in a newly registered doctor when a family clinic's main doctor is gone.