Agitated relatives and locals assaulted an on-duty doctor and ransacked a private clinic in the town, following the death of a woman in post-natal complication at the clinic in the early hours of yesterday.
Shahida Banu, wife of Abul Hossain of the district town, died nearly 12 hours after giving birth to twins at Shefa Clinic.
Relatives of the deceased claimed that the doctor was responsible for the death. They said that the doctor injected Shahida a date expired medicine leading to her death.
The victim was admitted to hospital around 5:00pm Wednesday with labour pains. She gave birth to twins and her condition was fine until about 1:00am. However Shahida began convulsing allegedly after the doctor pushed the medicine from the date-expired ampule. She died around 5:00am, the relatives added.
The agitating relatives and locals later ransacked the clinic and assaulted Khalilur Rahman, the on-duty doctor of the hospital.
Contacted, Khalilur however denied the allegation of pushing date expired medicine.
Additional police have been deployed in the area to avert further untoward incidents.
Source : The Daily Star
