Seven staffers jailed for wrong treatment
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion yesterday fined Crescent Hospital and Diagnostic Complex Ltd in the capital's Mohammadpur Tk 10 lakh for wrong treatment and jailed seven staffers including two so-called doctors.
Of the seven, Hasan and Anwar were jailed for two years for treating patients without any medical qualification. Manager Mithun Sikder was jailed for a year, and a technician who had been involved in generating fake medical reports for six months.
The mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam also sentenced two agents to six years' imprisonment. They used to lure patients from National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor) to Crescent Hospital.
One of the patients was six-year-old Samia Akhter. Her mother was crying and pleading for help when the Rab team entered the fifth floor of the hospital building.
The girl had broken one leg one and a half years ago, falling from a cot. Her mother brought her to the Nitor from Gopalganj when one agent told her that the girl would get better treatment at Crescent Hospital. Since then, she had been under treatment by a doctor named Asif.
She said she had borrowed money from NGOs and already paid around Tk 3.5 lakh for the treatment, and the self-proclaimed doctor demanded Tk 1.5 lakh more for further treatment.
Some other patients also complained against the owner, Nurunnabi, of beating them when they raised the issue of wrong treatment. He was not there when the raid took place.
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