Intern doctors at Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Sunday continued their indefinite strike protesting against attack on a colleague, former president of the medical
college unit Chhatra League, pushing the patients to suffer.
While visiting the CMCH at noon, gates of the hospital except one at the emergency department were found closed for the second day as the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League had put them under lock and key.
Anwar Hossain, father of a 10-year old girl undergoing treatment at the hospital, said no doctor had visited his daughter for the last two days, adding that he had also been facing difficulties in collecting medicine from the shops outside the campus as the gates remained closed.
Asma Begum, a resident at Chandgaon area who came to get her sister admitted to the hospital with respiratory problem, told New Age that she had decided to go to a private clinic after witnessing the situation at the CMCH.
‘We are going to a private clinic as the patients, who have already been here, are not getting necessary treatment,’ she said while coming out from the CMCH.
Chittagong Medical College Intern Doctors Association convenor Rashedul Reza Sunny told New Age that they would continue their strike until arrest of all the attackers and ensuring safety of the intern doctors.
Seven to eight youths attacked Dr Shohel Parvej Sumon, former president of CMCH unit Chhatra League who was in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, in front of National Hospital at Mehidibagh on Saturday. They hit Shohel in his head with sharp weapon at about 7:30am.
The interns initiated the embarked on their strike soon after the incident when the BCL also staged demonstration demanding arrest of the attackers. The BCL held activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, responsible for the attack.
Abdur Rouf, assistant commissioner of Panchlaish zone of Chittagong Metropolitan Police, told New Age that they had so far detained five persons for their suspected involvement with the incident.
-With New Age input
