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Ultrasound in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Taber Muhammad Abu
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1990.18.9.683
Subject(s) - medicine , developing country , population , socioeconomics , rural area , west bengal , situated , ultrasonography , optometry , environmental health , economic growth , surgery , pathology , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science , economics
Ultrasonography is becoming important and popular in many branches of medicine and more so in the third world countries. It is relatively cheap, painless, non‐ionizing, provides useful information about a large number of organs, and can be repeated often. Ultrasound has certain peculiarities which are unique to Bangladesh, as a country and as a nation. We are a thickly populated country situated to the north of Bay of Bengal—about 110 million people spread over an area of 55 thousand square miles. Seventy five percent of our population lives in remote villages. Major cities have large buildings and modern hospitals and clinics; there are huts, thatched houses, streetside quacks, and faith healers in the villages. The aim of Bangladesh health authorities is to t~ke medical aid to the 75% of people who live in ~Illages. Therefore, among all the newer imagIng technologies, ultrasound has made the deepest impact, both in urban and rural Bangladesh, comparing the cost with the valuable information obtained.