Doctors of Ibrahim Memorial Hospital (BIRDEM) have gone on strike since Tuesday morning protesting the attack on their colleagues by the relatives of a patient who died on Sunday.
The doctors also formed a human chain at Shahbagh intersection from 11am to 11:30am.
BIRDEM Director Dr Nazmun Nahar told the Dhaka Tribune that outdoor services in the hospital remained suspended since morning.
On Sunday, a gang of 50 to 60 people, directed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police ASP Masum and a former minister’s APS Babu, beat up three doctors following a death of patient of ward no 132 at around 8pm. They got severely injured in the incident, the doctors said in a written statement.
They demand immediate arrest of the ASP and APS and treatment of the injured doctors.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
