Authorities of Rajshahi University (RU) on Saturday lodged a written complaint, or First Information Report, at a local police station over an alleged attack on their students at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH), following the death of a student at the hospital, apparently due to negligence on Wednesday night.
The complaint signed by the university’s Registrar Prof Abdus Salam was lodged on Saturday afternoon, two days after the RMCH authority lodged a complaint of their own accusing 300 unidentified RU students for initiating the violence by attacking the hospital’s doctors, intern doctors, nurses and staff and vandalising its premises.
Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Rajpara police station, said they received a complaint from RU regarding an attack on their students by the RMCH authority, but are yet to record it as a case.
“An immediate measure will be taken in this regard following scrutiny,” OC Jahangir said.
On Wednesday night, MGM Shahriar, a fourth-year student of the university's marketing department, died after falling off the roof of Shaheed Habibur Rahman Hall.
After Shahriar fell, some students took him to RMCH, where he was declared dead on arrival.
Meanwhile, Shahriar's batchmates vandalised the hospital as according to them, the doctors did not attend to Shahriar in time. It led to a scuffle between the students and the medical interns. Hospital property ended up getting vandalized.
Later, the interns embarked on an indefinite strike, protesting the attack on them by students of RU, who thronged the area and demanded punishment of the attackers. Both sides dispersed subsequently. The interns returned to work as well, on condition that the students who engaged in violence be arrested within 24 hours.
Since that did not happen, the intern doctors announced a 72-hour work abstention today (Saturday), reports our RU correspondent.
RMCH authorities formed a five-member panel on Thursday to probe the death of Shahriar, in the wake of the allegations of negligence on the part of their doctors.
The university also formed two separate probe bodies. One is to investigate how the deceased student fell off the corridor of the hall and another is to investigate the entire incident on Wednesday night at the hospital premises. They were asked to submit their reports within three days.
RU students will form a human chain on Sunday morning in front of the university’s main entrance, protesting against the alleged negligence in Shahriar’s treatment by doctors.