Nasim asks BSMMU VC to apologise
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday asked the vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) to apologise to one of its pro-vice chancellors for his alleged assault on the latter in order to put an end to the prevailing tension.
The minister entrusted pro-VC [administration] Prof Sharfuddin Ahmed to sit with the feuding VC and the pro-VC [academic] today to settle the matter.
He gave the responsibility when three pro-VCs and the treasurer of BSMMU met the minister, state minister and the secretary at the ministry office. BSMMU VC Prof Kamrul Hassan Khan skipped the meeting though he was scheduled to join it.
Tension has been prevailing at BSMMU since Thursday as its VC Prof Kamrul Hassan Khan reportedly assaulted Pro-VC [academic] Prof ASM Zakaria Swapan over “corruption regarding nurses' recruitment”.
The minister also directed the pro-VCs and the treasurer to follow other modes of an autonomous body in recruiting nurses as an allegation of corruption has come to the fore centring the recruitment. Prof Sharfuddin and Prof Swapan confirmed The Daily Star about the outcome of the meeting.
“I have been asked to sit with the VC and the pro-VC [academic] today when the VC will say sorry to the pro-VC,” said Sharfuddin. He said he hoped the VC would apologise for the sake of a congenial atmosphere in the university.
Asked about the opinion of the pro-VC [academic] in this regard, he said as the pro-VC was in the meeting and did not oppose, the pro-VC would accept apology. The minister also expressed his condemnation to the VC as he failed to attend the meeting.
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