Emergency and other services at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) resumed Saturday noon as the DMCH intern doctors called off their work abstention. The DMCH doctors stopped work on Friday night following insults and violent reaction over the death of a patient.

Hospital sources said Shah Imran Hossain, 35, who received injury after falling from a shopping centre in the city's Rampura area, was admitted to the DMCH on Friday afternoon and later died there at about 5:30pm.

After Imran's death, his relatives insulted an on-duty nurse and hurled abusive words at the physicians.

They alleged that Imran, a supplier of rice and edible oil, died due to negligence of the doctors.

Angered by the abuses, the doctors, mostly interns, blocked the entrance to the emergency and locked other important departments of the DMCH halting treatment to the patients.

They
also staged sit-in at the DMCH around Friday midnight, gheraoed DMCH director Brig Gen Dr Abdus Shahid Khan and demanded arrest of the unruly relatives of the deceased.

As per the doctors' demand, Shahbagh thana police detained Imran's wife, Sanjana Latif Tropa, 29, and his brother-in-law, Ehsanul Latif Rupam, 25, and took them into police custody.

As news of their arrests spread, Imran's other relatives along with local people put barricades on Malibagh-Rampura TV Road for an hour till 11:30 am today, protesting their detention.

Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhul Haque and other concerned officials went to the hospital this (Saturday) morning and settled the trouble after holding talks with the striking intern doctors.

The normalcy prevailed at the DMCH as the doctors and other staff resumed their work at 12:30 pm yesterday.


Source: The New Nation