Patient Dies Due to Negligence of Hospital

An elderly woman has reportedly died due to the negligence of United Hospital in the capital, alleged her son Dr Ziauddin Hyder, a senior health specialist of the World Bank.

While talking with journalists over the phone from Cambodia, Dr Haydar claimed that his mother died because of unethical, illegal and hard decisions by the United Hospital authorities.

Dr Hyder said his mother Mahmud Khanam, 75, was admitted to the United Hospital on April 12 in critical condition and later she was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. But the hospital authorities released her on April 14. Later, she was admitted to Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital but she breathed her last on April 23 while undergoing treatment there.

''Our family members, including five doctors, think that it was a murder. We have talked with senior doctors from home and abroad, leaders of human right bodies and lawyers, and they also declared it as a murder'', he said.

Dr Hyder alleged that the hospital authority forcibly released her mother while she was in critical condition and badly need of ventilation.

The hospital authorities, however, claimed that the patient tested for Covid-19 positive in the second test.

When asked about the allegation, Sajjadur Rahman Suvo, an official of the United Hospital, asked to contact its chief of communication and business Dr Segufa Anwar but she could not be reached for comment.