Patients suffer as docs at hospital on strike
Patients vainly wait at the outdoor for treatment as the doctors at Jhenidah Sadar Hospital went on an indefinite strike yesterday following attack on doctors and ransacking of hopital rooms by relatives of an accident victim who died on Tuesday.Photo: STAR
Doctors at Jhenidah Sadar Hospital went on an indefinite strike following an attack by family members of a patient who died at the hospital Tuesday. The strike caused untold sufferings to scores of patients who came to the hospital from far away places of the district. Dr Rashed Al-Mamun, residential medical officer of the hospital, said eight people, who met a tragic road accident, were admitted to the hospital at around 7:00pm on Tuesday. Of them, Kamrul Hossain, 9, son of Abul Hossain of Narayanpur village in Sadar upazila, succumbed to his injuries at around 7:30pm. “As the news spread, family members of Kamrul rushed in and ransacked the hospital”, he said. “They vandalised emergency room and damaging equipment and a lot of medicine”. The indefinite work abstention would continue until the attackers are brought to book, said Rashed Al-Mamun. Victim's father alleged that his son died due to negligence and demanded exemplary punishment of the on-duty doctor. Refuting the allegation, on-duty doctor Ali Hasan Farid said the boy died because of excess bleeding. Hazera Khatun, an outdoor patient of Chandpur village, said she brought her ailing daughter to the hospital, but no doctor came to treat her. “What will I do now?” She posed adding she did not have the ability to consult a private physician. Contacted, Civil Surgeon Nasrin Sultana said a three-member probe committee would probe the incident. She also said that the duty doctors did not show negligence to any patient.
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