Dhaka, Aug 17 (bdnews24.com) – The High Court has summoned top officials of LabAid Specialised Hospital and Ibn Sina Hospital on charges of negligence in treatment of patients.
The bench of justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Gobinda Chandra Tagore issued the order on Wednesday.
In response to a writ petition, the court asked the chairman of LabAid Hospital, all its governing council members and two doctors to appear before it on Aug 23 to explain the treatment they provided to Mridul Kanti Chakrobarty, noted musician and professor of Music Department at Dhaka University who died in the hospital on Monday.
The same bench in a suo motu rule also directed the chairman of Ibn Sina Hospital, all its Trustee Board members and two physicians – Syeda Sultana and Anwarul Abedin – to appear before it the same day to explain their alleged negligence in treatment of a child.
RULE UPON LABAID
The court asked the government to explain why it should not be directed to take legal action against those responsible for the death of the university teacher, why the family of the teacher should not be compensated for the painful death and why it should not be directed to ban the operations of the hospital if the allegations of negligence in treatment are found true.
Eight people including the health secretary, director general of the health directorate, the president and the general secretary of the Medical and Dental Council, Dhaka division director of the health directorate and the chairman of the hospital have been asked to respond to the rule within three weeks.
Mridul Chakrobarty was rushed to LabAid Specialised Hospitals with dehydration complain on Monday. But he died there before getting proper treatment.
The court in another rule directed the government to form a committee, comprising representatives of the health ministry, physicians of public hospitals, professors of medical colleges and expert physicians, within two weeks to ensure speedy and standard treatment in private hospitals and formulate a guideline in this regard.
The health secretary and the director general of the health directorate and the Dhaka division director of the directorate were also asked to visit private hospitals in the city regularly.
Advocate Manzill Murshid argued for the petitioner.
ORDER ON IBN SINA
In a suo motu rule, the High Court bench asked the government to explain why it should not be directed to take legal action against the officials of Ibn Sina Hospital for their negligence in the treatment of a child.
The officer-in-charge of the Dhanmondi Police Station and other concerned were asked to respond to the rule within 12 days.
In this regard, deputy attorney general A B M Altaf Hossain told bdnews24.com that on Aug 15, private television channel Boishakhi TV ran a report on an infant, who died at the hospital allegedly due to negligence in treatment.
The court took cognizance of the report.
Dhaka University teachers and students, at a protest procession and solidarity rally on the campus on Wednesday, claimed that Mridul Chakrabarty died for wrong treatment and negligence. They also demanded sufficient compensation and a fair investigation into the incident.
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