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Joy's Visit to DMCH

Pro-AL activists block main entrance making patients suffer

Staff Correspondent
While anxious relatives of hartal arson victims were trying to enter Dhaka Medical College I lospital, pro-Awami League activists yesterday crowded the hospital premises and the surrounding streets to welcome prime minister's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
Joy had scheduled the visit to the country's busiest public hospital at 3:00pm to see the victims burnt during BNP-led 18-party alliance's recent hartal.
Carrying large paper boats in the streets around DMCH and chanting slogans, the joyous crowd stood on the streets, creating obstacles for patients to move into the hospital. Some nine burns victims were rushed in around 1:00pm when several hundred activists gathered there.
A group of some 60 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League central committee and Dhaka University unit sat blocking the street about ten yards off the hospital's main gate, which leads to the emergency section. The patients had to use a different entrance.
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Asked why they were sitting there, Dll's Zahurul Haq Hall unit BCL General Secretary Al Nahian Khan Joy said, "Joy Bhai came to visit DMCH. We're here to welcome him."
When the same question was asked to a young woman in the crowd, she replied, "We're tired of walking with the procession, so we sat here. Please, ask the leaders why we are sitting on the street."
A law enforcer deployed near the main gate was seen directing vehicles to take a different route as the BCL activists blocked the street.
Hospital authorities stopped patients and their relatives from using the regular emergency gate and asked them to use an alter-
native entrance because of the crowd.
Inside the DMCH compound, patients also had difficulty finding ambulances and auto- rickshaws which are usually parked near the emergency gate but removed to maintain security protocol yesterday.
Narayan Babu, 75, who brought his wife from Lalbagh with her right hand broken, said, "1 came out after the doctor treated her but now I cannot find an auto-rickshaw to take her home."
Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque and Prime Minister's Health Adviser Syed Modasser Ali accompanied Joy during the visit.