Police filed a case against seven people including chairman, vice-chairman and managing director of Asian Cardiac and General Hospital in connection with the deaths of three newborns at the hospital due to alleged negligence.
Sub-inspector Md Kamruzzman yesterday filed the case with Mohammadpur police station. The accused are Abul Hossain, Lutfar Rahman and Abdullah Al Ahad alias Shihab, the chairman, vice-chairman and managing director of the hospital respectively.
The other accused are Dr Shishir Ranjan Das, chief consultant of the Child Unit, Dr Aftab Uddin, medical officer, Dr Afria and manager Lyakat Ali.
Of the accused, Abdullah, Shishir and Aftab are now in jail while the rest are on the run.
According to the case statement, on Friday, three children – Kakoli, Shilpi and Afrin – died at the four-storey Asian Cardiac General Hospital in Block-B of Lalmatia of the capital due to alleged negligence of the hospital authorities.
There was unrest the night before after the news of the children’s deaths spread.
The hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ran with only one doctor who claimed to be an associate professor at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The treatment of newborns was done by the nurses most of the time, sources said.
Being informed, local police rushed there and arrested the three accused from the spot but the others managed to escape.
