Central Hospital doctor Mili gets bail

A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted bail to Central Hospital's physician Maksuda Farida Akhter Mili in a case filed on charge of neglect of duty that led to the deaths of a newborn and its mother.
Judge of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Dhaka, Md Tofazzal Hossain, passed the order after Mili, accompanied by her lawyers Mizanur Rahman Mamun and Sheikh Baharul Islam, surrendered before it and sought bail in the case.
The bail order will remain valid till submission of the probe report.
On July 5, the HC asked Dr Maksuda Farida Akhter Mili, a gynecologist of the Central Hospital, to surrender at the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's court in Dhaka within four weeks in the case.
The High Court, however, asked the law enforcers not to harass and not to arrest her by this time.
Two other physicians, Shahzadi Mustarshida Sultana and Muna Saha, were granted bail from another Dhaka court in the same case.
The newborn of Mahbuba Rahman Akhi (25) died while she was undergoing C-section in the hospital on June 10. Akhi who was later taken to LabAid Hospital and had been on life support there, died on June 18.
Akhi's husband Yakub Ali filed a case with Dhanmondi Police Station on June 14 accusing the doctors concerned and the hospital authorities for the botched C-section.
The accused falsely promised the patient and her family before the procedure that a doctor named Sanjukta Saha was at the hospital, said the complaint.

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