Junior physicians and employees besieged the office of the National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital's (
NIMH) director and senior doctors protesting the arrest of its registrar Dr Abbullah Al Mamun in a case filed over the death of a police officer.
They have besieged the administrative building since morning.
Meanwhile, medical activities at the hospital came to a halt for over two hours during the protest from 10 am.
Although physicians began to see outdoor patients around 12:30pm, director Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar and some officials were kept confined in the administrative block till then.
Police arrested NIMH registrar Dr Abdullah Al Mamun on Tuesday and then took home on a two-day remand in the case filed over the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anisul Karim Shipon.
Police alleged that Dr Mamun takes a 30 percent commission on every patient he recommended to Mind Aid Hospital.
The protesting doctors and employees claimed that police have arrested a government health official from his home without informing the hospital authorities.
Anisul Karim Shipon , the assistant commissioner of Barishal Metropolitan Police's traffic department, was taken to Mind Aid Hospital in city's Adabor area around 11:45am on Monday for treatment. But, he died soon after admission in the hospital.
Later, a video of beating senior
ASP Shipon in the Aggressive Management Room of Mind Aid Hospital has gone viral on social media.
The victim's father Faizuddin Ahmed lodged a murder case with Adabor Police Station early Tuesday accusing some 15 people.
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