Jamaat condemns attack on health centre in Mirpur

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam condemned and protested the attack, vandalism, and looting at the Radda MCH-FP Centre in the capital’s Mirpur on Thursday midnight.

Jamaat’s Central Executive Council member and Ameer of its Dhaka City North unit as well as mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mohammad Selim Uddin and party Secretary Dr Muhammad Rezaul Karim expressed their concerns through a press release on Saturday.

According to media reports and local residents, a reserved-seat woman MP and a BNP leader of the Dhaka City North unit allegedly planned and instigated the attack on the centre.

The Radda MCH-FP Centre has been providing a range of services–including maternal and child healthcare, immunisation, family planning, and other essential health services–to low-income and underprivileged people in Mirpur.

“An attack on such an important institution providing essential healthcare services to disadvantaged communities is extremely alarming and deeply regrettable, particularly under a democratic government,” the leaders said.

“Land disputes and ownership claims can be addressed through legal, administrative, and judicial channels. But taking the law into one’s own hands, demolishing a healthcare facility at midnight, and allegedly looting medical supplies and equipment belonging to government vaccination programmes cannot be accepted under any circumstances,” they added.

The leaders demanded a neutral investigation about the incident.

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“The government must ensure that such incidents do not recur, as any attempt to establish ownership or possession of property through mob action constitutes a direct challenge to the rule of law and the state’s judicial system.”

They urged to the government to promptly identify those involved in the attack, vandalism, and looting at the Radda MCH-FP Centre and take legal action against them.

They also called for immediate steps to recover the looted medical equipment and government property and to resume the operations of the affected healthcare centre as soon as possible.