The Greater Chattogram Public Transport Owners and Workers Unity Council called an emergency meeting amid the protests
Ehsanul Karim, an associate professor at Marine City Medical College in the port city, also had leukaemia, a cancer of the blood or bone marrow.
He breathed his last at the CMCH intensive care unit on Wednesday afternoon, said Brig Gen Humayun Kabir, the hospital’s director.
The doctor tested positive for the novel coronavirus in a test on May 29. He was hospitalised last week.