Punishment to Colleague
Indefinite strike at hospitals starts
The physicians of all government hospitals and health centres in Moulvibazar district yesterday launched an indefinite strike in protest of punishment to one of their colleagues by a mobile court a day before.
They demanded immediate release of Dr Ahmedur Rahman Rawnak, a medical officer of Monsurnagar union health sub-centre, who was sent to jail after being awarded one month's imprisonment and fined Tk 5,000 on Thursday for working at Lab Aid Diagnostic Centre in the district town when he was supposed to be on duty at the government health centre.
Dr Sabbir Ahmed Khan, president of Moulvibazar district unit of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), an organisation of physicians, described Dr Rawnak as "an innocent person" and said the strike will continue until BMA's demands are met.
The demands include immediate release of Dr Rawnak, removal of Executive Magistrate Md Abdul Kuddus, who conducted drives at different private diagnostic centres and clinics in the district town on Thursday and awarded punishment to Dr Rawnak, removal of the deputy commissioner (DC) of Moulvibazar, and removal of the assistant commissioner (AC-Land)
As BMA started the strike at the community clinics, health sub-centres, upazila health complexes and the district sadar hospital in Moulvibazar, suffering of the indoor patients escalated. At different hospitals, patients claimed that BMA always holds patients at hostage in the name of demonstrations.
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