Meeting to ease BSMMU 'tension' disrupts services
Healthcare services at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) were disrupted again yesterday as the university administration kept all the chairmen and senior professors of the university busy in a meeting for two and a half hours.
BSMMU VC Prof Kamrul Hasan Khan held the meeting at the university's Milton Hall at 10:00am to discuss way outs of the past three day's tensions between the two-factions of the university doctors.
The tension has been prevailing as the VC reportedly assaulted Pro-VC [Academic] Prof ASM Zakaria Swapan on Thursday over publication of a report on nurses' recruitment in a Bangla-language daily recently.
Many doctors joined the meeting keeping their patients and academic affairs at bay, meeting sources told The Daily Star.
At the meeting both the VC and Pro-VC traded blames. VC termed the pro-VC “criminal and goon” while the pro-VC termed the VC “corrupt”, they added.
Pointing out different corruption allegations against the VC, the pro-VC urged all the professors to protest from their own position any sort of corruption and irregularities.
Refuting the allegations brought against him, the VC said he would handle any misconduct with an iron hand.
Prof Sharfuddin Ahmed, pro-VC (administration), who was at the meeting, said, “We don't want any continuation of it. We want an immediate end to it.”
On Saturday, the supporters of the VC and the Pro-VC locked in a scuffle disrupting the healthcare services badly. In this backdrop, top officials of the university will sit with the health minister tomorrow to put an end to the prevailing tension.
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