Osmani Medical College Students Continue Strike for 3rd Consecutive Day

Students and intern doctors of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) have been demonstrating by shutting down the main gate of the hospital. They are staging movement by boycotting classes and exams for the third consecutive day.

Apart from this, the agitating intern physicians are also observing work of abstention.

The students demonstrated by locking all the gates except the emergency department of the hospital around 1pm on Wednesday (August 3). Besides, they have put a barricade on the medical road.

Dr. Safwan, general secretary of Osmani Medical College Hospital Intern Physician Council, said, “We will continue our strike until all accused are arrested and visible steps are taken to ensure security for the students and intern doctors. Apart from the work abstention, new programmes will be announced."

Earlier, the intern doctors of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) called for a strike in protest against the attack on two students of the medical college.

The attack was carried out on the two students around 9:30 pm on Monday (August 1). The injured are fifth-year student Naimur Rahman Emon, 24, and third-year student Rudra Nath, 22.

According to police and students of the college, the relatives of a patient admitted to the hospital misbehaved with a female intern doctor. When it was protested, outsiders carried out an attack on the two students, leaving them injured.