Allegations against Health Advisor for failing to visit the injured. Health Advisor Noorjahan Begum was met with hostility when she visited the National Orthopedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institute (Pangu Hospital) in the capital to see those injured in the July-August protests. On her way out, the injured folks blocked her route, claiming she had not met with all of them.
Allegations against Health Advisor. The injured, sat in wheelchairs and covered in bandages, blocked the road in front of the hospital. They said they wouldn’t go until the Health Advisor spoke with each of them. They were also frustrated because, despite previous announcements, they had yet to receive the promised compensation of 100,000 taka per person.
According to eyewitnesses, police, and hospital sources, Health Advisor Noorjahan Begum visited Pangu Hospital about noon to check on people injured during the July-August protests. She enquired about the condition of a few injured people and then spoke with the hospital’s director and doctors. After that, she went to meet with journalists. By then, a swarm of injured people had collected there. When requested to move, they obstructed the advisor’s car, with several lying down in front. A few others were observed jumping into the automobile. They gathered around the Health Advisor’s automobile and protested. Allegations against Health Advisor.
In the aftermath, the Health Advisor left the hospital in another vehicle. The British High Commissioner, who had accompanied the Health Advisor to the hospital, was likewise confronted with the issue and eventually departed the hospital in another car.
Ziaul Haque, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police for the Tejgaon Division, confirmed that the Health Advisor had left the hospital safely. Her car remained unharmed. Allegations against Health Advisor.
According to a hospital source, Pangu Hospital is still treating 84 people who were injured during the July-August riots. After the Health Advisor left, the injured individuals took up position on the road in front of the hospital. When word spread about the protest, individuals who had been injured and were being treated at the neighboring National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital joined in. As a result, traffic on the road became disrupted.
At one-point, military troops suggested that the demonstrators quit the road and return to the hospital. In response, Mohammad Masum, who was injured and, in a wheelchair, stated that they would remain on the road until the Health Advisor arrived. He reported that the Health Advisor went to the fourth floor of the hospital but did not see them on the third floor. He claimed that despite arriving to the hospital three months later, she had disregarded them.
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