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Sir Salimullah Medical College Hosplial

Medical services suspended for student-staff clash

Patients suffer immensely

Staff Correspondent
Medical sendees at Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the capital got suspended yesterday due to a clash between interns and class IV employees of the hospital, causing immense sufferings to hundreds of patients.
No patient could take sendees at the emergency and blood bank, the operation theatre was closed while the outdoor patients had to go back, said a doctor of the hospital seeking anonymity.The doctor added that although on-duty doctors were present in the evening, they could not provide sendees because of absence of the employees.
Several of the employees said they could not join the work due to fears of another untoward incident.
Meanwhile, visiting the hospital it was known that the breakfast for the patients was served at noon.
The water supply also was suspended, leading to further sufferings to the patients.
The clash erupted early yesterday with a scuffle between some interns and class IV employees centering blood reports of a patient at the pathology ward, sources told The Daily Star.
The clash left at least 20 injured with two class IV employees admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Abdul Awal, 38, one of the inured employees admitted to DMCH, claimed that around 12:00am, one intern came to the ward for testing blood of a patient known to the intern.
"I told him to come two hours later and he did so. When 1 asked for the service charge he refused to pay. He left the place and returned with five other interns and started scuffling with me. As I sought help from one of my colleagues, at one stage, they beat us up," said Awal.
Meanwhile, several interns whishing not to be named said the employee provided only one report instead of three. Requested, he delivered the other reports which were found fake.
When they protested his fault, the employee along with outsiders beat up one of the interns.
Regrouped around 7:30am, interns allegedly attacked the colony of the class IV employees and beat them up.
Fearing further violence, other doctors took shelter in safer places suspending the medical services.
Prof Dilip Kumar Dhar, principal of SSMC, said a five-member committee was formed for investigating the incident.