Strike at Chattogram pvt hospitals, clinics withdrawn

Staff Correspondent, Chattogram: The strike called at private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres in Chattogram has been withdrawn.

The decision was taken this noon responding to the call of Chattogram City Mayor and suffering of patients', said BMA's Chattogram unit general secretary Dr Faisal Iqbal Chowdhury.

Earlier, on Sunday, a mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) fined the much-talked Max Hospital in Chattogram Tk 10 lakh for different anomalies including providing lab reports without identifying disease and running pharmacy without licensee.

Protesting the raid at hospital, private hospitals in Chattogram stopped their service. Later, BMA's Chattogram unit expressed solidarity with those hospital and clinics.

Following the strike of doctors, a negative reaction was seen in social networking sites.

On June 29, two and a half-year-old Raifa Khan, daughter of Rubel Khan, staff reporter of a newspaper, died due to wrong treatment at Max Hospital. Later, the probe body formed by the government to investigate the death of Raifa Khan found evidence of negligence in her treatment.


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