A High Court lawyer has filed a case against four officials of Ibn Sina Hospital, accusing them of doing faulty platelet test for dengue.
Advocate Md Ramzan Ali Sarder filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Didar Hossain on Tuesday.
Three of the accused whose names are still unknown are the hospital chairman, the Ibn Sina Group chairman and the IBN Sina Diagonstic and Imaging Centre managing director. The fourth accused is consultant (haematologist) Prof Col (retd) Moniruzzaman.
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After recording statement of the complainant, Magistrate Didar directed the Dhanmondi police station OC to investigate and submit a report before the court by September 23.
Ramzan said: "I went to Ibn Sina hospital’s Dhanmondi branch with fever on July 25. I wanted to get tested for dengue.”
“The following day, when I got my report, it showed that I had 784,000 platelets in my blood, whereas a healthy person should have half a million to four million platelets.
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“After observing the abnormal platelet count, I got another test done at Bangladesh Medical College on the same day, the report of which showed normal amount of platelets.”
The dengue virus is spreading across the country and it turned aggressive both in Dhaka and the districts over the past week.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says only eight people have so far died from the disease, but the unofficial tally of reported deaths stood over 40 until Tuesday evening.
This year, a total of 15,369 dengue patients were hospitalized until Tuesday since January 1, according to the DGHS.
Experts fear that an epidemic across the country has already started to spread as the Aedes mosquito, the carrier of the virus, is prevalent everywhere in the country.
The disease has no known cure or vaccine yet.