17 suspended staffs resume work at BSMMU
Seventeen staff members of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), whose recruitment and promotion were termed controversial and were subsequently suspended by its syndicate, resumed work yesterday following a High Court (HC) order.
The HC on July 13 issued a status quo order on the syndicate decision on whose basis the 17 of the 19 staff members who filed the writ petition against the syndicate decision, joined work, a number of plaintiffs said.
“Status quo” is an order by a court asking people or an authority to keep things as they were before a dispute erupted.
However, the plaintiffs also filed a case with the 4th Joint District Judges' Court on June 10 this year, and the court issued a show cause notice on the university's authority on the same day asking it to stop the entire process to suspend the plaintiffs.
Not paying a heed to the court order, the university issued suspension orders along with show cause notices to 41 doctors and administrative officials.
The doctors then filed a writ petition with the High Court bench of Justice Sharif Uddin Chaklader and Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman on July 13 that issued the status quo order on the syndicate decision, Dr Abdul Kuddus, one of the plaintiffs, told The Daily Star.
“Until the disposal of the appeal, these doctors would continue to work as they were doing on June 10,” Dr Kuddus, also an associate professor at the department of Ophthalmology, quoted the court as saying.
Deputy registrar of the university Dr Rafiqul Islam Bachchu, who is also one of the plaintiffs, said they joined their work after they received the court order yesterday.
The 41 staff members, mostly professors at the university, were recruited between 2001 and 2006 and were suspended on June 30 this year on the ground that they were recruited and promoted through irregularities.
Prof Syed Akram Hussain of oncology department, prof Niaz Ahmad Chowdhury of vascular department and associate prof Kamruzzaman of general surgery of the university are among others who rejoined yesterday following the HC verdict.
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