A probe team has identified three students who vandalised the emergency unit of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday night, triggered by arguments about a patient’s admission.
The five-member team led by assistant director of DMCH Khaja Abdul Gafur, identified the students involved from surveillance videos of closed circuit television (CCTV).
The three students are Shahin, a 2nd-year student of DMC (k-58 batch), Sajib, a resident of the University of Dhaka’s (DU) Shahidullah Hall, and a Dhaka College student called Kamal.
They found out from the footage that Shahin was drunk during the incident.
The team spoke with the patient and his relatives in this regard, who are supposed to submit a report within five working days.
Brigadier General Mustafizur Rahman, director of DMCH, told the Dhaka Tribune it was very unfortunate a section of DU students had often damaged valuable property belonging to the DMCH. “This time, they attacked the hospital staff after a rumour spread that their fellow students had been attacked. They did the same thing at least four times in the last two years.”
He said after each incident, official letters were sent to the DU authorities to set up a probe committee and investigate the students’ involvement. “But they never formed one,” he said.
Doctors of a hospital in Pabna referred the patient in question, Masud Rana, to the DMCH, after he injured his eyes in a scuffle.
A medical officer on-duty referred him to an eye specialist of the hospital, and they advised him to go to the National Institute of Ophthalmology.
But Shahin, Shajib and Kamal insisted Masud Rana should be treated at the DMCH, and ended up brawling with hospital staff.
When Shajib told students from Shahidullah hall the hospital staff attacked them, a group of angry students went on a rampage in the emergency unit. None of the students involved in the violence were however related to the patient.
