5 Labaid doctors sued for 'wrong treatment'

The wife of the deceased Nasir Ahmed, poura mayor of Daudkandi in Comilla, yesterday filed a case against five doctors of Labaid Cardiac Hospital on the charge of killing her husband in wrong treatment on April 25.
Mahmuda Ahmed filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.
The accused are Dr AM Shamim, managing director of the hospital; consultants Dr APM Sohrab Uzzaman and Dr Md Lokman Hossain; and assistant cardiac surgeons Dr Shamim and Dr Emran.
After the hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Emdadul Haque ordered Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) to submit a report by July 13 whether the patient died due to negligence of the physicians or wrong treatment.
The court also ordered the VC of BSMMU to form a committee of three physicians who are specialists on cardiology including a cardiac professor.
In her complaint, Mahmuda said her husband was taken to Labaid for check-up on April 1. After check-up, Dr Sohrab and Lokman told her they found block in her husband's heart and there was an urgent open heart surgery.
As per their advice, the complainant admitted her husband for treatment the same day and the accused doctors operated on him on April 5. But her husband's condition deteriorated as there was water in his lung.
Due to negligence of the doctors, her husband died on April 25, Mahmuda alleged.