HC issues rule on interns' behaviour

The High Court (HC) issued on Monday a rule asking the government to explain as to why the rules relating to the professional behaviour of the interns according to the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council Act -2010 should not be applied properly, reports UNB.

An HC bench of Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir issued the rule following a writ petition.

Advocate Syed Hassan Zubayer stood for the petitioner.

Secretaries to Health and Family Welfare, Education and Law ministries, Director General of the Directorate of Health Services, Vice-Chancellor of Rajshahi University and five others have been made respondents to the rule returnable in two weeks.

Advocate Tanjim Al Islam, a counsel of the writ petitioner, said the patients and their relatives in different medical college hospitals have been suffering a lot by the indiscipline behaviour of some interns while taking treatment across the country and the occurrence of many unprecedented incidents were published in different newspapers.

"We have filed a writ petition, attaching newspaper reports on this, with the court," he said.