Osmani Medical College Hospital: Patients suffer as intern doctors continue strike
The strike that started on Monday to protest the attack on students of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and harassment of a trainee doctor continued yesterday as well.
As the intern doctors enforced an indefinite strike, hundreds of patients are suffering at the division's largest public healthcare facility.
Hospital Director Brig Gen Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan said healthcare fell into a crisis due to the strike. "All the pressure is now on the mid-level doctors."
Many patients were seen returning to their homes being unable to see a doctor. Those who came from far had to suffer the most.
"The students and intern doctors have remained agitated, as police could not arrest some prime accused yet. The matter has been communicated to the health and foreign ministers, and we hope it will be resolved soon," he said.
Students also boycotted all classes and examinations for an indefinite period and locked the administrative building's gate in the morning. College Principal Prof Moynul Haque could not be contacted.
Police are yet to arrest all the accused in two separate cases filed on Tuesday. Earlier, two people were detained and later shown arrested in those cases.
On Sunday, an intern doctor of the hospital was harassed by a patient's relatives. Later, miscreants attacked the medical college students on Monday, injuring two.
The students started a demonstration and confined the hospital director for around an hour that night.
In the case filed by college administrative officer Md Mahmudur Rashid over the attack on students, seven people -- Dibya, Md Abdullah, Ehsan, Mamun, Sajon, Sujon and Sami -- were made accused.
Meanwhile, Abdullah is the lone accused in the case filed by hospital administrative officer Mohammad Hanif over the harassment.
Abdullah is the nephew of a member of Awami League's Sylhet city unit.
Azbahar Ali Sheikh, deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said, "There is still no progress in arresting other accused in these two cases. Police are trying."
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