Interns at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) went on a 48-hour strike on Sunday morning demanding an increase in salary and allowances.
Due to the strike, patients in the hospital have been deprived of desired services since night, several patients said. No doctors were seen in most of the wards, causing suffering of the patients. The 48-hour strike will continue until 8:30pm on Monday (March 25) which started Sunday at 8:30am.
Dibakar Chakma, president of the Intern Doctors Council of KMCH and Dr Asaduzzaman Sagar, general secretary of the same organisation, said last year interns and postgraduate trainee doctors staged a demonstration demanding salary hikes and then the health minister promised to increase the salaries and allowances.