A public health rights organisation in a press conference protested the transition of Chittagong Medical College Hospital into a university and demanded the establishment of a separate medical university in the port city.
The demand was made by Janasasthya Odhikar Rokkha Committee yesterday at Chittagong Press Club.
Convener of the organisation, Mahfuzur Rahman, said they received a draft of university law of 2012 recently which mentioned that all the establishments under Chittagong Medical College would be given to the university.
But, government in a gazette published in April 30 said the hospital would remain as a government organisation. The gazette was published after demonstrations were staged against the decision of the government on April 15.
Member Secretary Sushanta Barua of the organisation said if CMCH was converted into a university then patients who were receiving health services at minimal cost would be denied such service.
He said they were not against establishing the medical university but it should be a separate establishment for better heath services for the poor.
