Akij Group’s cornavirus hospital plan faces protests
Protests have erupted in Dhaka’s Tejgaon a day after Akij Group, a business conglomerate, announced an idea to create a specialised hospital amid growing concerns over the lack of logistics to identify and treat coronavirus patients in Bangladesh.
Three people, including security and construction industry workers, were injured as scores of locals vandalised the site after work started out on Saturday, reports bdnews24.com.
The disgruntled locals later took to the streets in protest.
Earlier, Akij Group’s Managing Director Sheikh Bashir Uddin said a healthcare facility will be built on the company’s empty plot next to the factory of motorcycle makers TVS in Tejgaon.
The area is made up of a dense slum and building a hospital there would expose its residents to the chance of the coronavirus infection, Rahima Begum, an area resident, said. Accordingly, she demanded that the hospital be constructed elsewhere.
The protesters subsequently cleared the streets after about one . 5 hours upon assurances from the neighborhood councillor and police that the construction work would stop.
