Patients suffer as doctors attend meeting
The physicians at Chittagong Medical College formed a human chain protesting at the arrest of their fellow, who was sent to jail by a court on charge
of forgetting to bring out needle from the body of a patient after performing surgery.
Meanwhile, patients at the hospital suffered a lot as they got no physician from 11:30am to 12:30pm during the human chain formed by the Bangladesh Medical Association at Prabartak in the port city.
Kamal Ahmed, attendant of a patient at the medicine ward, said they were waiting for a doctor for more than an hour as their patient was feeling sick and added that
usually the doctors visit the patient during this period.
‘I have heard that the doctors had left the hospital for attending a meeting,’ said Jahanara Begum, attendant of another patient at the orthopaedic ward, adding that many of the patients were suffering in the absence of the physicians.
The Chittagong chapter president of BMA, Majibal Hoque Khan, said they had to organise such programme as the arrest was an injustice to whole the community.
He also said the programme had caused no sufferings to the patients, as the doctors on emergency duties had not joined it.
Majibal Hoque Khan, Nasiruddin Mahmud, Mashud Aktar, Alok Kumar Raha, Nur Hossain
Bhuyan, Mohammed Sharif and Shahana Akter, among others, addressed the human chain of the physicians.
A Chittagong court on Monday sent Dr Surman Ali, who had forgotten to bring out needle from the body of a patient after performing surgery, to jail in a case filed by the victim, Aminul Islam.
The Consumer Association of Bangladesh in a statement, signed by its central executive member SM Najer Hossain,
divisional general secretary Kazi Iqbal Bahar and city chapter president Jeshmin Sultana Paru, condemned the move of the physicians.
-With New Age input
