Md Habil Uddin, Bagha (Rajshahi)

Upazila health and family planning officers including doctors, nurses and other staff are being allegedly obstructed to provide service by a section led by drivers Bulbul and Anik.

To protest their misdeeds and demanding punishment, a human chain was held in front of Bagha Upazila Health Complex on Sunday noon.

The driver gang involved in intimidation, abuse, indecent behavior. The at the human chain damanded exemplary punishment to the persons involved in the obstacles of providing services to the patients.

Addressing the human chain, Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr. Asaduzzaman Asad said, "We are the servants of the people, we have come to serve the people." The state has hired us to provide you with medical care. We have no competition with people. But I don't want to see any terrorist in the hospital and I don't want to see it in the future either. All the people who are there and those who are in higher authority will stand by us.

We will provide medical care relentlessly. But Bulbul and Anik these two terrorist have been bribing the nurses. In view of that, I have participated in this human chain. You will be by our side. I will create a good atmosphere here by expelling these miscreants and if the two terrorists are not immediately arrested immediately , I will be forced to give more programs later.

Dr. Ahsanuzzaman Pingku (Orthopedics) Saiful Islam (Cardiologist) Dr. Moushumi Sarkar (Gynaecologist) Nihar Chandra Mandal (RMO) Minarul Islam (Medical Officer) Asad (Pediatrician) Nowraj Nahar Liza Kamrunahar Kanta (Medical), Moumita Pandey (Medical Officer) and all of the hospital staff were present in the human chain.

It is to be noted that on Saturday (November 9), the miscreants misbehaved with the upazila health officers-nurses rudely and insulted inside the hospital ward. Meanwhile, panic spread among the patients and parents being treated in the ward.