HARD HURDLE : Patients\' relatives trying to get into Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) by crossing one of its gates while emergency services at DMCH remained suspended for about five hours Tuesday following clashes between intern doctors and Dhak
Emergency services resumed at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after nearly five hours of suspension following a scuffle between interns of DMCH and students of Dhaka University (DU) on Tuesday. The patients who needed emergency services had to suffer immensely.
Authorities of the DMCH reopened the emergency gate at about 4:30pm.
Police and witnesses said the trouble erupted at about 11:45am over getting in an elevator at the country's largest public hospital. The interns drove the students off the lift of the hospital.
The interns also launched an attack on the journalists when they went to cover the incident and manhandled a reporter of a private television channel and ransacked his camera.
The interns suspended services at Emergency and Casualties Department of the hospital by locking its emergency gate.
The situation turned worse after 30 minutes of the clash when several dozens of DU students equipped with sticks and iron rods made a counter-attack in protest of the assault.
Talking to the FE, In-Charge of DMCH police camp Inspector Mozammel Haque said a few students of the DU came to the hospital to visit mother of one of their classmates.
The angry students attacked the emergency department of the hospital in protest against the attack but they could not proceed further because of rapid intervention of the law enforcers, the police officer said. He also said they stepped up their security arrangements in and around the hospital to avert any further trouble.
However, relatives are not being allowed to meet the patients admitted to the hospital or supply food and medicines.
A number of ambulances and microbuses carrying critical patients were found parked outside the hospital.
Fayek Miah, who came from Gopalganj Sadar Hospital with a critical patient, expressed his dissatisfaction over the chaos, saying that he came to the hospital with his uncle, who has been suffering from tumor in his head, at about 2:30pm.
"Now, what should I do and where should I go with the critical patient?," he poised a question, adding that the young physicians should not do anything that causes further miseries to the patients.
Last month, a clash between the interns of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) and the journalists had hampered medicare services at RMCH.
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