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Strike: No treatment at NICVD

By Staff Correspondent
The doctors' strike at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases is forcing many patients to go back home from the outpatient department.
Many patients who came to see doctors at the hospital yesterday could not do so even after waiting for hours at the outdoors.
The strike at the hospital was called in protest against suspension orders by the Health Ministry on three NICVD physicians.
The suspension orders took effect from yesterday following recommendation of the three-member parliamentary standing committee on health ministry on July 9 this year.
the suspension and subsequent protest by the doctors followed the death of Zulfiqar All Bhutto, a Jatiya Party MP from Jhaiakhati, at the hospital on May 5 this year. A group of youths reportedly ransacked the hospital recently alleging negligence of duty by the doctors who treated Bhutto.
Azim Mahmud, a retired government officer, waited more than five hours yesterday at the corridor on the ground floor but his turn never came.
”1 am going back without seeing any doctor. And this has happened for the second day today," lie said.
Many other patients sitting outside the consultants' rooms
yesterday afternoon had almost the same story to tell to this correspondent.
Between 200 and 230 patients usually come to the outpatient department to consult doctors during office hours be-tween 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. everyday. However, there was unusual rush yesterday as the two-hour strike lingered until official hour for seeing patients was over.
About 100 patients were lucky enough to consult doctors yesterday. Most of them had prior appointment though.
"We are very shocked. Why should commoners suffer for a cause that does not concern them? asked a woman escorting her sick mother to the hospital.
Sitting next to her. a man In his mid forties, said, "I have come from Jatrabari and I know this Is the only government hospital that has proper facilities lor heart treatment. But I'm terrified at what I've seen here today."
Meanwhile, the routine visits by doctors io cabins and wdrds were also disrupted by tie strike .is well as the meeting nl Himi'I.Klesh Medical Association (BMA) at the hospital premises yesterday.
The doctors who were macle ofliccrs-on special duty and faced temporary suspension are Assoc late* Professor Mohlbul* lah and Assistant Professor Mlzanur Rahman. Dr Joyanta Kumar Poddar was also suspended temporarily.
Bangladesh Cardiac Society and NICVD Teachers Association has termed the suspension unfair and said there was no negligence on the part of the doctors who had treated Bhutto.
Meanwhile, the BMA has urged the government to withdraw suspension orders immediately and arrange proper security for the doctors working at the hospital.
Condemning the recent attack by outsiders on doctors at the hospital, the BMA leaders warned that the government would be responsible for any consequences in the wake of the sus|ensions