Writ petition seeks nationalisation of DNMC, DNMI

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday, to direct the government to take over Dhaka National Medical College (DNMC) and its hospital Dhaka National Medical Institute (DNMI) as a public medical college and hospital.

Advocate Eunus Ali Akond, a member of the governing body of DNMC, submitted the petition as a public interest litigation, saying discrimination and business are taking place in running DNMC, and the practices will stop if DNMC and DNMI are made public institutions.

He said 500 to 600 students including many foreign students are studying at DNMC, which is a medical institute of international standard.

The DNMC was established at old part of Dhaka in 1926, but it has not been nationalised, he said in the petition.

In the petition, Advocate Akond said admission fee at a public medical college is Tk 10,000 but the admission fee at DNMC is Tk 18 lakh, which is a discrimination.

Authorities of DNMC are charging double from foreign students and “running business with education”, which are contradictory to the constitution, he said in the petition.