Rajshahi-2 lawmaker and president of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) management council Fazle Hossain Badsha on Saturday called for exhuming the body of a deceased Rajshahi University student for autopsy.
He made the demand while taking part in a human chain to protest the vandalism and attack on intern doctors of RMCH.
"Why did you run away with the body without doing the postmortem? You brought him (RU student) dead and threatened that the victim’s family should not have the autopsy done," he added.
He went on: “We have filed a case on behalf of the hospital. We want the dead body to be exhumed.”
At the same time, he urged the Ministry of Home Affairs to conduct a thorough inquiry into the incident.
Meanwhile, intern doctors of RMCH resumed their strike on Saturday demanding the arrest of the RU students who attacked them over the death of a fellow student.
At 1pm, a human chain was formed and a rally was held at RMCH premises protesting the attack by RU students, vandalization and obstructing administrative duty.
Dr Imran Hossain, president of Intern Doctors Council, announced a 72-hour long strike from the rally.
According to the announcement, the intern doctors will hold protest rallies in front of the hospital every day during the strike. No intern joined work on Saturday after the announcement.
Dhaka Tribune“We’ll take tougher action if police don’t record the case lodged by the hospital authority and arrest the attackers,” Imran Hossain said.
Earlier, KGM Shahriar, a fourth-year student of the marketing department of RU, was critically injured after falling off the roof of Shaheed Habibur Rahman Hall on Wednesday night. Shahriar's friends took him to RMCH where he was declared dead.
But Shahriar's classmates alleged the RMCH doctors and staff delayed in attending to him, and insisted he could have been saved.
Alleging negligence in his treatment, they started vandalizing the RMCH in protest. At the time, some intern doctors and hospital staff fought back and threw them out.
Later, the intern doctors went on an indefinite strike, protesting the attack and vandalism carried out by the RU students. Hospital patients naturally suffered as a result.
On Thursday, the intern doctors of RMCH withdrew their indefinite strike, warning that the strike would resume unless the attackers were identified and punished within 24 hours.