Four intern doctors from Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital (SZMC) in Bogra, who are also members of SZMC unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), had assaulted a patient’s relative in the hospital on February 19. On recommendation of the probe committee investigating the assault, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare suspended the internship of the four accused intern doctors for six months on March 2. After complying with the suspension, the four intern doctors will be barred from coming back to SZMC and will have to complete their internship in four different medical colleges. We can never support a strike that risks lives of patients.”Interns of CMC and Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) did not join in the strike till the filing of this report. Whereas, interns from Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal, Dinajpur Medical College, Khulna Medical College, North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Sirajganj, Rajshahi Medical College and four different hospitals from Sylhet including Osmani Medical College Hospital joined in the strike, our correspondents reported.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 04, 2017 19:41 UTC