Privately practicing Ctg doctors threaten strike protesting cases

The doctors' leaders in Chittagong city in a meeting at Chittagong Medical College yesterday gave an ultimatum of 24 hours to withdraw two cases against three doctors filed on Tuesday over negligence in treatment.

Mujibul Haque Khan, president of Chittagong district unit of Bangladesh Medical Association, said they had decided to stop providing all sorts of healthcare services in the private hospitals and diagnostic centres and would also refrain from private practices. "All the government hospitals will remain out of the purview of this work stoppage," he added. "Doctors cannot be sued for anything that happens during treatment," he said.

Khairul Bashar lodged a case accusing Dr Shamima Siddique Rosy and Dr Mahbubul Alam for the death of his daughter, and Jebal Hossain filed the other case against Dr Rana Chowdhury, assistant registrar of Chittagong Medical College Hospital with similar allegation.

On January 10, Meherun Nesa, 22, died at a private clinic after a caesarean operation, due to alleged negligence. Jebal Hossain's son Nur Absar was admitted to CMCH for a hernia operation on November last year. He was admitted to a private clinic as his pain increased. There, doctors found bandage left at the place of operation in his body, according to the case statement.