Opening Drug stalls at Dinajpur Medical
Medicine traders stop sale, stage protest
Medicine traders in areas around Dinajpur Medical College and Hospital (DJMCH) yesterday stopped selling medicine in protest against opening of two medicine outlets inside the hospital building.
The traders under the banner of Dinajpur Chemist and Druggist Association yesterday held an hour long human chain programme in front of DJMCH urging the authority to cancel functioning of the two medicine stalls.
They also threatened to go for tough programme if authorities do not cancel the decision.
Traders at the human chain programme said the medicine stalls have been set up inside the hospital building in violation of rules and those were handed over to activists of the ruling party without any valid procedure.
There is no other example of setting up medicine stall at any government medical college hospital of the country, they added.
Demanding withdrawal of the decision taken by the authority earlier, the traders have been agitating for the last two months.
Md Anwar Hossain, vice president of town unit of Jubo League, and Md Mainul Alam, an activist of local Awami League, yesterday started functioning of Anwar Medical Store and Al Madina Medical Store respectively to sell medicine inside the hospital, sources said.
When contacted, Dr Shamsul Alam, director of Dinajpur Medical College and Hospital, said, “The management of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital at a meeting took the decision to open medicine stores at the hospital building.”
When contacted, the president of Dinajpur Medical College and Hospital management committee, local AL lawmaker Iqbalur Rahim said the medicine stores were allocated through maintaining all the due procedures.
“We held a meeting with the director of DJMCH on Monday night but the meeting ended without any solution,” said Islam Uddin, president of DJMCH Medicine Traders Association.
After the meeting the hospital authority filed a general diary against Md Hamidul Islam, owner of Sohag Medical Store, who allegedly spoke harshly at the meeting.
A large number of police have been deployed in and outside the medical college complex.
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