KOLKATA: In an awful display of discrimination, a hospital in Kolkata’s Manicktalam, India has sparked outrage by announcing that it will not provide medical treatment to patients from Bangladesh.
The decision has drawn widespread criticism for its inhumane stance, raising concerns about medical ethics in India.
Indian media reported that an official of the JN Ray Hospital on Friday said that a decision has been taken to stop treating people of Bangladesh in the hospital.
“We have issued a notification that from today till an indefinite time we will not admit any Bangladeshi patient for treatment,” hospital official Subhranshu Bhakt told the media.
The officials also asked other hospitals in the city to follow their hospital and refused to treat patients from Bangladesh.
The government of Bangladesh has not yet issued any statement over the development.
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Earlier, some section of media reported that many patients in hospitals in Kolkata and its suburban areas come from Bangladesh. However, now patients have significant decreased due to current situation.
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 77, fled Bangladesh in August by helicopter, seeking refuge in India as a student-led uprising escalated into mass protests in Dhaka, leading to the abrupt end of her authoritarian regime.
Bangladesh said that it will seek the extradition of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India to face trial on charges related to mass killings during recent student-led protests
Hasina’s government had faced widespread accusations of human rights violations, including the extrajudicial killings of political opponents and the illegal abduction and disappearance of hundreds of people.
