Students besiege clinic

Students of Dinajpur Polytechnic Institute besieged a clinic in the town following death of a female student of the institute due to alleged wrong treatment at the clinic on Saturday night. The dead, Mukta Rani Roy, 17, daughter of Ulen Chandra Roy of Daulatpur village under Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, was a student of computer science department of the institute. Mukta had been living in a female students' mess in Nimnagar Balubari area in the town. She was admitted to Janata Clinic at Mohajanpara under the municipality with severe headache and abdominal pain at around 7:00pm on Saturday. Mukta's roommates, who took her to the clinic, alleged that her condition deteriorated after a nurse gave her (Mukta) an injection. She died at around 9:00pm, they said, adding that wrong treatment led to her death. Doctors, nurses and other staff of the clinic left the hospital soon after the incident. Hearing the news, several hundred students of Dinajpur Polytechnic institute rushed to Mohajanpara and besieged the clinic. They lifted the siege at midnight at the request of law enforcers. Despite repeated attempts, this correspondent could not contact the doctors of the clinic as their cellphones remained switched off.