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Doctors on duty at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital’s coveted unit have issued a 48-hour ultimatum to hospital authorities to demand safe accommodation. They demanded from the hospital director Professor Uttam Kumar Barua, deputy director. Mamun Morshed and the Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine and coordinator of the Covid unit, Prof. Shahadat Hossain surrounded Ripon’s room. The incident took place at the hospital on Saturday (September 19).
However, the director general of the health department said he had nothing to do with it. The ministry has officially canceled the quarantine of the doctors.
Several doctors working at Kovid’s unit told the Bengali Tribune: “We don’t have a hotel, the authorities couldn’t arrange any accommodation. But we cannot put our family at risk. ”
Several doctors, who did not want to be identified, told the Bengali Tribune: ‘We have to finish our duty today and go home. Several members of the family of various doctors have been infected through us, and the father and father-in-law of three doctors have also died. But we haven’t found a solution yet. We have given a 48-hour ultimatum to the authorities. If there is no quarantine solution inside, we will no longer fulfill duty in the Corona unit. But I will do my duty in the hospital’s non-corona unit.
The doctors said: ‘The director of the hospital, Prof. When they surrounded Uttam Kumar Barua’s room, he saw in front of us the Director General of the Department of Health, Prof. Dr. Abul Basar called Mohammad Khurshid Alam, but could not provide any solution.
In addition, some 75 doctors have submitted a memorandum to the hospital director.
Hospital director Prof. Uttam Kumar Barua later told the Bengali Tribune: “We have informed the doctors that we will inform the higher authorities about their demands. I have already spoken with the Director General of the Department of Health and will report to the Ministry.
“The doctors have given us a 48-hour ultimatum to solve their housing problems,” he said.
In fact, after the corona outbreak on April 12, the Health Department arranged 19 hotels in six hospitals in the capital to house doctors, nurses and health workers who provide medical care to patients affected by the corona. But on July 29, the secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. According to a circular signed by Abdul Mannan, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided not to pay the hotel bills of health workers, including doctors dedicated to treating Corona patients. At the same time, they canceled the hotel facilities assigned to the doctors.
According to the circular, a doctor on duty in the capital Dhaka will receive a daily allowance of 2,000 Tk and 1,600 Tk outside of Dhaka, a nurse will receive an allowance of 1,200 Tk in Dhaka and 1,000 Tk outside Dhaka and a health worker it will receive Tk 600 in Dhaka and Tk 650 outside of Dhaka. .
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