Forum urges round-the-clock diagnostic services and modern biomedical machinery operation
NDF Demands 10th Grade for Medical Technologists
- Demands raised for elevating medical technologists to 10th grade and providing 24/7 diagnostics
- Only 8,000 technologists employed in public healthcare against 50,000 certified technical professionals
- NDF calls for activating idle biomedical equipment and expanding specialized technical careers
The National Doctors Forum (NDF) has demanded upgrading medical technologists from the 11th to the 10th pay grade, creating new technical posts, and ensuring 24/7 diagnostic and laboratory services across public healthcare facilities. The demands were presented in an official statement issued by NDF General Secretary Professor Dr. Mahmud Hossain on Thursday, 27 August 2026, marking the 7th conference of the Radiology and Imaging Technologists Organization.
The statement emphasized that medical technologists constitute the core technical workforce in modern clinical diagnosis and laboratory engineering. Currently, despite nearly 50,000 technologists completing academic and specialized certifications nationwide, only around 8,000 are recruited within the public health apparatus. This structural gap has intensified professional unemployment while constraining public hospitals from delivering high-volume, low-cost diagnostic and imaging services.
NDF highlighted that deploying trained technical personnel is essential both for widening citizen healthcare access and optimizing state hospital revenues. To sustain round-the-clock diagnostic workflows, the forum urged the rapid creation of permanent technical cadres.
The statement noted that prolonged recruitment halts have left numerous posts vacant, leaving complex biomedical machinery underutilized and severely disrupting pathological and radiological evaluations. NDF appealed to the government to equate medical technologists with other technical diploma holders by upgrading them to the 10th grade, standardizing career development paths, and facilitating higher academic avenues. Concurrently, the forum called upon medical technologists to execute their responsibilities with elevated technical competence, ethics, and dedication to strengthen national healthcare outcomes.
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