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DMCH outdoor service resumes today


Published : 02 Sep 2024 09:48 PM

In connection with the attack on the doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the service was closed in the 'Complete Shutdown' programme called by them.

Earlier on Sunday night, emergency department service was resumed, but the outpatient department was closed. 

Doctors have decided to provide services to the outdoor patients as well.

From Tuesday, the outdoor service will resume on a limited basis from 10 am to 1 pm, said the spokesperson of the protesting doctors Abdul Ahad, the resident surgeon of the neurosurgery department.

Ahad confirmed the matter to media on Monday.

On August 31, a patient died at DMCH, after which agitated loved ones alleged negligence on the part of the doctors and assaulted three of them at the hospital premises, prompting the doctors to call a strike.

They withdrew their call for a 'complete shutdown' of medical services across the country upon assurances from the health adviser to the interim government of security and arrest of the individuals who manhandled the doctors.

Subsequently two arrests were made, and security was beefed up.