Patients admitted to the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital and those coming to the hospital for treatment from Dhaka and other districts continued to suffer on Tuesday as treatment remained suspended for the seventh consecutive day.聽
Treatment at the hospital, located in Dhaka鈥檚 Agargaon area, was suspended after a clash broke out on May 28 between the hospital staff, outpatients and the July uprising injured who were admitted to the hospital.
Md Khorshed Alam, additional secretary of the Health Services Division, said that the hospital鈥檚 emergency services would reopen on Wednesday with outdoor services resuming on a limited scale.
Al-Amin, who was injured in the uprising and is currently admitted to the hospital, told 抖阴精品 on Tuesday that although a five-member investigation team鈥攆ormed by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry on May 29 to probe the clash鈥攙isited the hospital to speak with them.
Following the situation, most of the in-patients have left, but 50 July injured are currently staying at the hospital.聽聽
Meanwhile, patients seeking treatment were seen being turned away from the hospital鈥檚 main gate by the members of Bangladesh Ansars deployed there.聽聽
Offering apology for the disruption in services at the hospital, the ministry on Saturday requested the patients to seek treatment at the nearby hospitals.
On Wednesday, the hospital staff, doctors, and nurses began a work stoppage demanding their security, a day after NIOH director Khair Ahmed Choudhury was besieged for two hours by protesters following suicide attempts by four July uprising survivors on May 25.聽
At one point, a clash broke out among the hospital staff, outpatients and later with those injured in the 2024 July uprising, leaving about 21 injured.