KM ANIK
24 UPDATE
30/10/2017
Country Bases "Dhaka Medical Collage, Dhaka "
Reported in BANGLADESH
With severe head injuries, Mehedi Hasan was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon.
On the 30km way from Munshiganj, his condition worsened, as blood continued to ooze out of his wounds from falling off a running truck.
But to his utter shock, he was denied treatment, as doctors stopped working, protesting an attack on their colleagues by relatives of a patient who died at the hospital yesterday."Who will be responsible if something bad happens to my son?" Jahanara Begum, mother of Mehedi, told The Daily Star before leaving the hospital without treatment around 2:45pm.They took him to National Institute of Ophthalmology at the city's Agargaon.Like Mehedi, over a hundred patients needing emergency treatment were turned away during the work abstention by doctors and nurses at the emergency for about three hours.
The blocked-off entrance to the emergency department of the hospital.
The chaos at the country's largest public tertiary hospital with 2,600 beds began soon after the death of Nawshad Ahemd, 52, around 12:45pm.A grocer from the capital's Lalbagh, Nawshad was admitted to the hospital on Saturday morning with complaints of chest pain.But claiming that he died due to wrong treatment, a group of people, including his family members, beat up several doctors, nurses and Ansar men and damaged the medicine trolley of the ward, said Sub-inspector Bachchu Mia, also in-charge at the hospital's police outpost."Four doctors and three Ansar men were injured in the attack. The right hand of Dr Shamimur Rahman has been fractured after he was hit with a chair,” said DMCH Director Brig Gen AKM Nasiruddin.He dismissed the allegation of wrong treatment, saying they tried their best for the patient's recovery.
Angered by the attack, doctors and hospital staff locked the gate of emergency complex and stopped working, police said.Treatment at other wards and units, however, continued as usual.
Four people were detained over attack.
Patients and their attendants from different parts of the country condemned the assault on the doctors but said the way some doctors reacted was unexpected.
"Attacking doctors is a terrible thing to do, but what the doctors did in response was not acceptable as it is a matter of people's life and death for patients," said a relative of a patient who was denied treatment.Doctors returned to work at the emergency around 5:00pm following a meeting with the hospital authorities, police officials and Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) President Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin, who arrived at the hospital hearing the news.
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