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High Court injunction on BMA to call off strike

By Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday Issued a mandatory injunction on the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) asking it to immediately call off the ongoing strike by the government doctors.
Acting on a writ petition filed Monday by the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), a division bench of the High Court directed the respondents to call off the strike by the BCS (Health) cadre doctors Immediately from the date the notice is
The court also Issued a Rule Nisi on the respondents to show cause why the ongoing strike since September 21 should not be declared illegal
and why they should not be directed to restore services at state hospitals.
Comprising Justice M Mo xammel Haque and Justice Badrul Islam Choudhury, the HC bench made the rule re turnable within four weeks from the date of the order
Seeking the restoration o! the public medical services disrupted by the continuous strike by the government doctors. the BELA petition was filed against the following respondents: the Slate, represented by the Secretary. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: the Director General of Health Services: the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council: and the BMA.
The court issued the rule on the BMA and the Bangladesh Medical and Denial Council and ordered the notices to be served on the re spondents by a special mes sengcr at the cost of the petitioner.
According to a press re lease issued by BELA yesterday the notice has already been served on the BMA. Hence the mandatory injunction is effective from today, it said
Moving the petition Dr Mohiuddin Farooque. the pen tioner and secretary general of BELA, submitted that the peo pie of the country were dying and their suffering was mount ing specially of the poor who
rely only on public health facilities. because of the ongoing strike and the authorities’ failure to restore the services.
He pointed out the violation of laws and the failure' of all the respondents in performing . their respective statutory and public duties and prayed for Rule Nisi, appropriate directive and mandatory injunction to end the deadlock.
Earlier on Monday, the Dhaka District Court issued an ad-inlerlm injunction restraining BMA president Dr M A Majed and secretary general Gaza Abdul Haque from continuing tlie doctors’ strike. In response to a case filed by Advocate Firoz Kumai Hasan on September 28. ihe court is sued a show cause notice re-turnable within 24 hours.
UNB adds: The Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) in an emergency meeting last night reaffirmed that the nationwide doctors' strike would continue and termed a television news on It "confusing".
The state-run TV telecast last night a High Court order, upon a writ petition, for an immediate end to the strike ,thal passed off a fortnight paralysing medicare at government hospitals and medical centres across the country.
A resolution of the meeting said the medicare system had not been disrupted at any place because of the strike enforced to press a 21-point charier of demands.
A BMA press release said indoors of the hospitals and emergency departments remained open for treatment of the indoor patients. Besides, alternative outdoors of the BMA also remained open.
The physicians working in drought-hit areas and those engaged in anti-plague activities have been exempted from the indefinite strike.
Meanwhile, in a late night insertion in the press release, the BMA said. We have not yet received any court order. On receipt, we will move for legal measures.'"