Hospitals across country to resume services in full swing tomorrow

After two days of operations on a limited scale in protest against attack on doctors, medical services will resume in full swing from tomorrow (4 September) in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and other hospitals across the country.

''Considering the measures taken by the government in favour of our demands and the overall situation of the country, we are announcing the resumption of full service in all hospitals across the country," Abdul Ahad, a senior doctor at DMCH's Neurosurgery Department, told reporters at a press conference this evening.

On 31 August, a patient died at DMCH, after which agitated relatives alleged negligence on the part of the doctors and assaulted three of them at the hospital premises, prompting the doctors to call a nationwide complete shutdown the following day.

The doctors demanded justice for the attack and security of their workplaces. 

Due to the shutdown hundreds of critical patients suffered due to lack of treatment.

The doctors withdrew their complete shutdown and medical services resumed in a limited scale upon assurances from the health adviser to the interim government of security and arrest of the individuals who manhandled the doctors.  

Subsequently, two arrests were made, and security was beefed up.