A day after a hospital in Kolkata stated it won’t deal with sufferers from Bangladesh over alleged disrespect to the Indian flag there, a multi-specialty healthcare facility in Agartala adopted go well with on Saturday.
“As an Indian, we respect and assist the feelings of people that got here right this moment. With this thought, we wish to iterate that Bangladeshi individuals have insulted us, have mistreated our individuals and we will not present any service to them…,” an government of Agartala’s ILS Hospitals instructed the media Monday.
The assertion from ILS Hospitals got here on a day when an Indo-Bangla worldwide passenger bus rammed into one other bus whereas crossing the Biswa Highway in Bangladesh’s Brahmanbaria district. The Tripura authorities claimed the bus got here “beneath assault”.
“… a goods-carrying truck intentionally rammed into the bus with the intention to trigger an accident… After the incident, native individuals began hurling threats to Indian passengers within the car. Anti-India slogans had been raised and life threats had been made to them,” Tripura Transport and Tourism Minister Sushanta Chowdhury wrote on social media.
On Friday, the JN Ray Hospital in Kolkata’s Maniktala introduced it won’t deal with any Bangladeshi sufferers as an indication of protest over the way wherein “the nationwide flag of India has been desecrated in varied locations” within the neighbouring nation. BJP chief Sajal Ghosh, a councillor of Kolkata Municipal Company, is among the administrators of this hospital.
“Nation is above all. Nothing can occur above the nation. Medical service is a noble career however the dignity of the nation is paramount. Different medical establishments must also observe this path,” Subhranshu Bhakta, the director of JN Ray Hospital, stated Friday. He stated the hospital has determined to cease offering all companies to sufferers from Bangladesh for now.
“Our hospital is a personal hospital and Ghosh is our one of many administrators and administration service supplier,” Bhakta stated.
In response to hospital sources, the 141-bed hospital at all times used to have 20% Bangladeshi sufferers at any given time. “We don’t have any Bangladeshi sufferers proper now. We now have three Bangladeshi sufferers who had been discharged in the previous few days after which we introduced to cease admitting Bangladeshi sufferers,” he stated.
Earlier, gynaecologist Indranil Saha stated on social media that he had stopped seeing Bangladeshi sufferers. On Thursday evening, Saha posted an image on social media purportedly exhibiting disrespect to the Indian flag in Bangladesh. “I’m stopping seeing Bangladeshi sufferers within the chamber for now. Nation first, earnings later. I hope different medical doctors will do the identical till the connection is regular,” Saha stated.
On Friday afternoon, Suvendu Adhikari, Chief of the Opposition within the West Bengal Meeting, made the identical demand. “I bow right down to Dr Indranil Saha.” “…I request all the Indian medical neighborhood, businessmen and India lovers to boycott Bangladesh fully,” Adhikari stated.
Whereas the state doesn’t have a precise variety of Bangladeshi sufferers that come right here for medical tourism, personal hospitals that The Indian Specific spoke to assert that they make up at the least 10% of their complete affected person depend.
Nevertheless, hospital sources additionally say that the political disaster in Bangladesh has triggered these numbers to plummet — in some circumstances, dramatically by three quarters. A senior consultant of the Narayana Well being, which runs the RN Tagore Hospital, stated, “The numbers have gone down from 180-200 to 60. We apprehend extra fall in these numbers within the coming weeks due to Visa points.”
