The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an operation to catch brokers in Chattogram Medical College (CMC) Hospital. The operation was conducted under the leadership of Faisal Ahmed Quader, Assistant Director of ACC Integrated District Office Chattogram-1.
The ACC team arrested two brokers in the operation conducted on Thursday afternoon.
ACC Chattogram-1 Assistant Director Faisal Quader led by four members came to the hospital for the operation. During this time, they visited several wards and talked with patients and their relatives.
Mahmuda Akhter working as Assistant Director of ACC Chattogram-1. She became a disguised patient for the sake of the investigation. Rush to the maternity ward of the hospital to get the desired service.
While talking while taking service there, he fell into the clutches of brokers with several people. They were extorting huge sums of money from the patients and their relatives as hostages.
ACC officer Mahmuda saw pictures of patients and their relatives coming from far away being harassed in the hospital. The ACC officials informed the information after verifying the authenticity of the complaint in the ACC complaint number.
At one stage of the operation, ACC officials visited the maternity ward. In the maternity ward, two young men introduced themselves as hospital ward boys. However, they could not show any kind of identity. Later they were handed over to the police.
The arrested are Rajeev Vaidya (28) and Md Hasan (22), residents of Chattogram's Boalkhali Upazila. They have been handed over to the police.
ACC Chattogram-1 assistant director Faisal Quader told reporters that the hospital was raided after receiving complaints from the service users and relatives of the patients. For the sake of investigation, we have secretly spoken to the patients and their relatives in the hospital. Meanwhile, two persons were harassing the patients in various ways including taking them to other wards in wards 31 and 33 of the hospital. They were immediately arrested and handed over to the police.
The ACC inspection team went to the room of Brigadier General Shamim Ahsan, Director of CMC Hospital. They talk to him about the general affairs of the hospital.
ACC Chattogram-1 Assistant Director Faisal Quader highlighted several recommendations aimed at reducing the violence of brokers.
He said hospital staff and ward boy members have their own clothes. But many don't wear their own clothes. Due to which patients do not know brokers and employees. It would be beneficial to the patients and their relatives if it was possible to make uniforms compulsory for the employees working in the hospital.
Brigadier General Shamim Ahsan, Director of CMC Hospital, said there are four types of brokers in CMC Hospital. Some are sharing patients, some are diagnostic, some are taking medicines and some are holding the patients hostage in different ways. Brokers are being arrested every day. But again they come to the hospital and do the same thing. We are working to reduce the incidence of brokers.
ACC officials have sought our assistance in this regard. We raided a few places with them and arrested two people.
