Anti-media posters at RMCH

An anti-media campaign has started at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital in a sequel to a row between intern physicians and journalists. Posters ridiculing journalists have appeared on walls at the hospital premises. Some of them appealed to doctors not to prescribe medicines manufactured by companies whose owners run media. Meanwhile, newsmen have demanded their unhindered entry into the hospital and the removal of derogatory posters. Journalist leaders submitted a memorandum to the hospital director to press their demands. When contacted, RMCH Director Brig Gen AKM Nasir Uddin said the poster might have been stuck at night. He said he had already ordered their removal but the instruction was yet to be carried out. Intern doctors and journalists had clashed on April 20 over the gathering of information about the hospital. The Rajshahi Union of Journalists General Secretary Mamun-or-Rashid said anti-journalist posters were seen in the entire hospital complex. He said they ridiculed newspersons by saying ‘medical treatment should be taken from journalists in order to be saved from wrong treatment’. Rashid said the memorandum given to the director demanded an end to the slanderous campaign and the creation of congenial environment for news collection. The director assured the journalist leaders that the posters would be removed, according to bdnews24.com.