Patients suffering for doctors� strike in Khulna

KHULNA: All physicians call on 24 hours strike yesterday at government and private hospitals to protesting assaulted one of their colleague, reports BSS.They also locked the gate of the emergency departments during the strike.
Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Khulna Unit, Private Medical Practitioners Association (BPMPA) and Private Clinic and Diagnostics Owners Association (BPCDOA) jointly called the 24 hours strike at a meeting held at BMA auditorium on Wednesday.
Chaired by Khulna District President and central Vice-President of BMA Dr. Shekh Baharul Alam, Doctors leaders of the organisations attended the meeting.
On March 1, Khulna BMA at a press conference at Khulna Press Club demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of Terokhada Sadar Union Parisad Chairman S M Waheduzzaman and his supporters on charge of physically assaulting medical officer of Terokhada health complex Dr. Abdullah Al Mamun.
They set on Wednesday as deadline for arresting the UP chairman and his supporters. Chairman Waheduzzaman and his supporters attack on Dr. Mamun around 9.pm on February 28 as they claimed. The attack on him came as he did not agree to visit sick wife of UP chairman at his residence at least three kilometers away from the health complex.
The chairman along with his supporters stormed into the emergency ward of the health complex and started beating him. As a result, he sustained severe injuries in his body and teeth. He is now undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).
A case was filed with Terokhada Police Station in this connection accusing five people including UP chairman and some unnamed other accused.
Talking to BSS yesterday, Dr Sheikh Baharul Alam said that doctors are giving health services to the serious emergency patients. "We will be taken tougher action if the administration concerned did not meet our demand," he threatened.
While visiting several public and private hospitals this noon, this correspondent found that patients left the hospitals due to doctors hospital.
Contacted, UP chairman Waheduzzaman denied his participation in the attack on Dr Mamun. "I don't know who attack him. But it is true that Dr Mamun is a delinquent physician who keeps him aloof from serving patients of the upazila health complex properly for doing private practice, UP chairman said.
Dr Mamun also denying the allegation of UP chairman and said he had been working in the emergency ward to examine the patient. So I am not agree to go to the house of UP chairman and to see his sick wife leaving the patient of the health complex, he added.

Patients suffering for doctors� strike in Khulna

KHULNA: All physicians call on 24 hours strike yesterday at government and private hospitals to protesting assaulted one of their colleague, reports BSS.They also locked the gate of the emergency departments during the strike. Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Khulna Unit, Private Medical Practitioners Association (BPMPA) and Private Clinic and Diagnostics Owners Association (BPCDOA) jointly called the 24 hours strike at a meeting held at BMA auditorium on Wednesday. Chaired by Khulna District President and central Vice-President of BMA Dr. Shekh Baharul Alam, Doctors leaders of the organisations attended the meeting. On March 1, Khulna BMA at a press conference at Khulna Press Club demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of Terokhada Sadar Union Parisad Chairman S M Waheduzzaman and his supporters on charge of physically assaulting medical officer of Terokhada health complex Dr. Abdullah Al Mamun. They set on Wednesday as deadline for arresting the UP chairman and his supporters. Chairman Waheduzzaman and his supporters attack on Dr. Mamun around 9.pm on February 28 as they claimed. The attack on him came as he did not agree to visit sick wife of UP chairman at his residence at least three kilometers away from the health complex. The chairman along with his supporters stormed into the emergency ward of the health complex and started beating him. As a result, he sustained severe injuries in his body and teeth. He is now undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH). A case was filed with Terokhada Police Station in this connection accusing five people including UP chairman and some unnamed other accused. Talking to BSS yesterday, Dr Sheikh Baharul Alam said that doctors are giving health services to the serious emergency patients. We will be taken tougher action if the administration concerned did not meet our demand, he threatened. While visiting several public and private hospitals this noon, this correspondent found that patients left the hospitals due to doctors hospital. Contacted, UP chairman Waheduzzaman denied his participation in the attack on Dr Mamun. I dont know who attack him. But it is true that Dr Mamun is a delinquent physician who keeps him aloof from serving patients of the upazila health complex properly for doing private practice, UP chairman said. Dr Mamun also denying the allegation of UP chairman and said he had been working in the emergency ward to examine the patient. So I am not agree to go to the house of UP chairman and to see his sick wife leaving the patient of the health complex, he added.