Two doctors were maimed in a fierce clash over establishing supremacy between rival factions Internists versus surgeons?
of Swadhinata Chikitsak Gay Pareehad (SCP) at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.
Every once in awhile the mind just boggles...
Both the groups of SCP, a pro-Awami League doctors' organization, attacked each other with hockey sticks, iron rods, wooden sticks and sharp weapons, witnesses said.
Oh, so it could have been psychiatrists...
At least two rooms including the registrar's one were vandalised while another doctor's room was put under lock during the clash.
Panic gripped the patients and their attendants during the one-hour-long chase and counter chase inside the country's largest hospital.
Dr Murad Hossain, an intern doctor, was hacked on his right hand while Dr Abdullah Tareq, medical officer of Directorate General of Health, was hacked on his head. They took treatment at the hospital and were out of danger, said Brig General Md Mostafizur Rahman, the DMCH director.
Dr Tareq, a former emergency medical officer of DMCH, came to the hospital to meet his former colleagues.
A group of doctors backed by Assistant Professor Dr Mazharul Haque Tapan, also executive member of the hospital's SCP convening committee, engaged into a heated argument with some members of SCP in the room of registrar of Medicine Department (Unit-3) around 1:30pm, said a doctor, who witnessed the incident.
At one point, they vandalised the registrar's room on the first floor of the hospital.