A day after a hospital in Kolkata mentioned it is not going to 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 in the present day. With this thought, we need to iterate that Bangladeshi individuals have insulted us, have mistreated our individuals and we will not present any service to them…,” an govt of Agartala’s ILS Hospitals informed 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 automobile. Anti-India slogans have been raised and life threats have 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 is not going to deal with any Bangladeshi sufferers as an indication of protest over the way by which “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 without doubt one of the administrators of this hospital.
“Nation is above all. Nothing can occur above the nation. Medical service is a noble occupation however the dignity of the nation is paramount. Different medical establishments must also observe this path,” Subhranshu Bhakta, the director of JN Ray Hospital, mentioned Friday. He mentioned the hospital has determined to cease offering all providers to sufferers from Bangladesh for now.
“Our hospital is a non-public hospital and Ghosh is our one of many administrators and administration service supplier,” Bhakta mentioned.
In keeping with hospital sources, the 141-bed hospital all the time 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 have been discharged in the previous couple of days after which we introduced to cease admitting Bangladeshi sufferers,” he mentioned.
Earlier, gynaecologist Indranil Saha mentioned on social media that he had stopped seeing Bangladeshi sufferers. On Thursday night time, Saha posted an image on social media purportedly displaying 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 docs will do the identical till the connection is regular,” Saha mentioned.
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 group, businessmen and India lovers to boycott Bangladesh utterly,” Adhikari mentioned.
Whereas the state doesn’t have a precise variety of Bangladeshi sufferers that come right here for medical tourism, non-public hospitals that The Indian Specific spoke to say that they make up no less than 10% of their whole affected person depend.
Nevertheless, hospital sources additionally say that the political disaster in Bangladesh has prompted these numbers to plummet — in some instances, dramatically by three quarters. A senior consultant of the Narayana Well being, which runs the RN Tagore Hospital, mentioned, “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.”
