Interns at RMCH agitate to press for 4-point demand
Interns of Rangpur Medical College and Hospital bring out a silent procession on the campus yesterday to press for home their four-point demand including resignation of the hospital director.Photo: STAR
Interns at Rangpur Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) yesterday stage agitation on the college campus to press for their four-point demand including immediate resignation of the director of the hospital. The other demands are setting up a police camp on the campus, punishment to those who attacked the students on Thursday and restriction on entry of outsiders into the campus. The interns alleged that Director Dr Toufiqul Islam abused them when they went to his office to submit a memorandum containing the demands on Saturday. “We demand his immediate resignation from the post as he failed to provide security for the interns,” they said Leaders of RMCH Interns Association said they had earlier demanded setting up of a police camp on the campus, but to effect. The hospital director in an emergency meeting yesterday assigned Prof Zakir Hossain, head of the medicine department, to sit with the interns to resolve their problems. On Sunday, the interns formed a human chain on the campus to press home their demands. They alleged that class three and class four employees of the hospital attacked the students on Thursday, leaving 15 of them injured. Refuting the allegation, Mofizul Haque, convener of Class Three and Class Four Employees Union of the hospital alleged that the interns and students had attacked the employees. He said the leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Rangpur Medical College (RMC) unit had demanded job quota of 10 MLSS posts that led to an altercation between them on Thursday. When asked, BCL college unit convener Ashfaqul Haque Khandoker Pulok denied the allegation of demanding the job quota.
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