Patients Suffer: Ambulance drivers sued for murder on the run
Patients face untold sufferings as all the three ambulance drivers of Pirojpur District Hospital and Pirojpur Mother and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC) in the town have gone into hiding after two of them were sued in separate murder cases.
They are Motaleb Sheikh and Kabir Hossain, drivers of Pirojpur District Hospital and Sumon Sheikh, the only ambulance driver of Pirojpur MCWC. Sumon is the son of Motaleb.
Police said on Sunday, Motaleb along with some men allegedly hacked his neighbour Enayet Mollah, 60, of Khanakuniary village in Pirojpur Sadar following an altercation over a piece of disputed land.
Critically injured Enayet was then rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH). He died there early Tuesday.
Later, the deceased's son Al Amin filed a case with Sadar Police Station, accusing 11named and three to four unnamed people. Motaleb is the main accused in the murder case.
After filing of the case, Motaleb and his son Sumon went into hiding. However, Sumon's name was not mentioned in the case.
They were raiding different areas to arrest the accused, said Nurul Islam Badal, officer-in-charge (OC) of the police station.
On the other hand, another ambulance driver Kabir Hossain of Pirojpur District Hospital has gone into hiding since a murder case was filed with Sadar Police Station against him on June 25. The deceased was Tushar Sheikh, 14, a student of Class IX of Pirojpur Town High School.
On June 24, relatives took Tushar to Pirojpur District Hospital after breaking his right leg. After giving primary treatment, the on duty doctor at the hospital referred him to Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).
But on the way to KMCH, ambulance driver Kabir took the victim to a house in Pirojpur town where a group of fake doctors, led by Sachin Roy, a pharmacist of Pirojpur District Hospital, treated the patient. Later, the boy died there.
The following day, the deceased's father Shohag Sheikh filed a murder case with the police station, accusing five named and two to three unnamed people. Ambulance driver Kabir is the prime accused in the case.
Police later arrested two accused--- Ali Imam Antu and Ali Hasan Leon--in the murder case. The arrestees are the sons of late Abdus Salam Modhur, former councilor of Ward no 6 of Pirojpur municipality.
Patients coming to the hospitals in Pirojpur for receiving treatment have been facing untold sufferings since the ambulance drivers have gone into hiding.
Pankaj Kumar Mistry from Nazirpur upazila said "I came to Pirojpur District Hospital to treat my pregnant wife on Tuesday morning but fell in trouble in the afternoon when we had to leave the hospital for home as there was no ambulance driver at the hospital."
Contacted, Dr Md Hasnat Yousuf Zaki, civil surgeon in Pirojpur, said he has informed the higher authorities about the matter.
However, an ambulance driver from an upazila health complex in Barguna district joined Pirojpur District Hospital yesterday, said the civil surgeon.
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