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