MMCH interns resume duty, 2 attackers held

Interns at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) called off their indefinite strike and resumed duty at around 1:00pm yesterday.

Around 200 interns went on an indefinite strike on Tuesday afternoon, protesting assault on one of their fellows.

Dr Abu Bakar Siddique, president of Intern Doctors' Association at MMCH, said they called off their strike as police arrested two of the attackers from the town's Charpara area.

Police arrested two alleged attackers -- Rubel Chandra Sarker, 25, and Jasim Uddin, 28 -- said Md Kamrul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station early yesterday.

The arrestees were produced before a Mymensingh court at noon with a prayer for 7-days' remand for each. The court sent them to jail without fixing date of hearing on the prayer, police said.

Police drives are on to arrest the other accused, the OC said.

The interns had submitted a memorandum to the MMCH authorities on Wednesday, giving a 48-hour ultimatum to arrest the attackers.

Intern Doctors' Association sources said a group of around 15 outsiders entered Ward No-13 of the hospital on Tuesday and engaged in an altercation with Dr Mazhar over taking of tissue paper from the ward without permission. At one stage, they assaulted Dr Mazhar, said sources.