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Staff Correspondent : A businessman on Wednesday lodged a complaint against doctors, directors and employees of Chittagong Metropolitan Hospital for their reported negligence that led his father to death.
Mir Mainul Hasan Chowdhury of Sitakunda upazila filed the complaint with the court of Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Mahabubur Rahman.
The court ordered the concerned Kotwali Police Station to record the complaint as a First Information Report (FIR) and take necessary action in this regard, said complainant’s lawyer Advocate Absar-ur-Rashid.
The accused are Engineer Mominul Haque, Dr Mahmud Hasan, Dr Abdul Halim, Dr FR Shukrana, Dr Mujibul Haque, Dr Shafiul Hasan, Engineer Lokman, Engineer Sekander, Jahangir Kabir Chowdhury, Dr Farid, Mohammad Humayun Kabir Patwari, Dr Osman, Dr Jahir Uddin Anis and Engineer Khurshid and ward boy Samad,.
In the complaint Mainul said he admitted his father Mir Moazzem Hossain Chowdhury to the hospital at city’s OR Nizam Road on 1 August.
After blood, urine and other necessary tests, the doctors of the hospital said his father was out of danger.
Mainul Hasan alleged that Dr Mahmud Hasan and Ward boy Samad shifted the bed of the patient without informing the patient’s attendants and catheterised the patient improperly, causing bleeding.
He drew attention of the concerned management for action when the ward boy gave the patient stale soup and three nameless tablets, alleged the plaintiff.
After taking the soup and tablets, condition of the patient deteriorated and he died at around 2.00am on 3 August, Mainul alleged.
He also complained to acting Managing Director Dr Shukrana who asked him to attend the meeting of the board of directors on 5 October.
But at the meeting the accused intimidate him into giving an undertaking to withdraw his allegations.
As the accuser refused to give the undertaking, they snatched his mobile phone and took his signature on two stamps forcibly, said Advocate Absar-ur-Rashid.