Tuesday at Private Hospital-Diagnosis

Chittagong: Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Chittagong branch has announced to stop all services of private hospital-diagnostic center in Chittagong in protest of doctor beating.

Monday (April 22) BMA Chittagong branch president Dr. Mujibul Haque Khan gave this information to BanglaNews.

Earlier, the leaders also announced this from the human chain held in protest against the beating of the doctor on April 18.

Dr. Mujibul Haque Khan told BanglaNews that as part of the pre-announced program, services will be closed in all private hospitals-diagnostic centers in Chittagong from 6 am tomorrow Tuesday (April 23) to Wednesday (April 24) 6 am.

Along with that, the private practice of doctors will also be closed. However, the services of emergency patients and patients already admitted to the hospital will continue.

He said that doctors are being attacked again and again. We don’t want any of our colleagues to be victims of such incidents. We demand exemplary punishment for those involved in the incidents of medical centers in Patia and Nagar.

Last Saturday (April 20), doctors observed a two-hour strike in all government and private hospitals.

On the night of April 11, miscreants attacked Raktim Das (29), a doctor on duty in the emergency department of Patia General Hospital. Two days later, on the morning of April 14, Riaz Uddin Shiblu, a doctor at Chittagong Medical Center Hospital, was attacked by his relatives.

Bangladesh Time: 1940 hours, April 22, 2024
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