Strike at Mymensingh medical continues
Interns and students at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital continued their strike for the fourth consecutive day yesterday protesting the attack on them by outsiders on Thursday night.
They staged a sit-in demonstration and brought out processions on the campus demanding arrest and punishment of the attackers.
Meanwhile, The MMC academic council and district administration sat for a number of times yesterday but failed to make any headway in the deadlock.
The strike caused untold sufferings to the patients of the hospital although the intern doctors claimed that they have formed emergency squad for the treatment of serious patients.
Earlier, interns and people of nearby Charpara area locked in an altercation over harassing a female intern doctor by a local on Thursday night.
Following the incident, a group of people of the area launched an attack on the interns and vandalised different rooms of the hospital.
Later, the intern and students on Saturday went on indefinite strike demanding arrest and punishment of the attackers in 72 hours.
The 72 hour ultimatum for arrest of the attacks will expire today.
Meanwhile police arrested two more alleged attackers yesterday. The first arrest was made on Friday.
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