Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged government physicians to restrain themselves from excessive private practice as it make them lose their temper.

‘...you need to think how much pressure you can take ...it's quite natural to lose temper when you're doing government jobs all day long and then going for private practice at night,’ she said.

The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating theNational Institute of Advanced Nursing Education and Research (NIANER), the only institute in the country that will provide higher education on nursing, in the city's Mugda area, reports the UNB.

‘We've raised the salaries and allowances in government jobs...we've increased it by 123 percent,’ she said.

Sheikh Hasina, however, said the number of patients in the country, compared to the number of doctors and nurses, is very high.

‘I won't blame you (doctors and nurses), we've got a huge population, you have to take so much pressure...so, it's very tough to tame your temper,’ she said.

Hasina said the attitude of providing services to patients is the main thing in medical service. ‘Half the patients feel better when doctors and nurses talk to them politely and with sympathy.’

She mentioned that sincerity and responsibility are the most important things in providing medical services to patients.

The Prime Minister also pointed out the problems of diagnosis in medical services in Bangladesh and said the incidents of wrong diagnosis are there.

Stressing the importance of creating skilled hands in this field, she said, ‘You just tell us what we need to do...we'll do the rest.’

Hasina said it will not be possible to prevent the patients from going to Singapore, Bangkok and India without having a proper diagnosis system in place in the country. ‘If they can, why can't we? This question crosses my mind repeatedly...we have to do that...we have to provide that standard medical facilities.’

The Prime Minister asked all concerned to gather that experience and strength for providing better medical treatment to patients.

Chaired by Health and FamilyWelfare Minister Mohammad Nasim, the programme was addressed, among others, by State Minister for Health and FamilyWelfare Zahid Maleque,Local MP Saber Hossain Chowdhury,Kyunghoon Sul (Vice President for Global Partnership of KOICA) and Secretary M Sirajul Huq Khan.