Health Minister Mohammad Nasim today urged the LGED ministry to take legal action against the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) administrator as “he committed a criminal offence by leasing open space for cattle market in front of four hospitals at Agargaon in Dhaka”.
The DNCC administrator, Enamul Haque, should be removed from his post, the minister said while addressing a press conference at the secretariat in Dhaka.
Expressing his regret over the incident, Nasim said, “We had written a letter to the home ministry (before the Eid-up-Azha) to stop the operation of the market following a traffic chaos and people’s sufferings in front of the hospitals in the area,” he added.
“Anybody will have to face stern action if such incident occurs further,” Nasim said at the press conference.
The conference was organised a day after the minister visited the cattle market set up ahead of Eid-ul-Azha next to the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital.
The venue is just few yards from the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), Dhaka Shishu Hospital and National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital of the Dhaka city.
The DNCC, like the previous years, has leased the field to a bidder to set up the cattle market there, causing immense sufferings to thousands of patients and their attendances visit the hospitals every day.
Source: The Daily Star
