Registration of 10 doctors suspended for different terms over duty negligence
The BMDC’s 54th council meeting found the allegations against the doctors to be substantiated, and the action was taken under provisions of the BMDC Act, 2010 and the BMDC Regulations, 2022.
The Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC) has suspended the registrations of 10 doctors over proven charges of medical negligence that led to the deaths of four patients and financial harm caused to another person through incorrect medical reporting.
The decision was announced on Sunday (1 March) in separate notices signed by the BMDC's Acting Registrar Dr Md Liaquat Hossain. The notices state that the doctors' names have been removed from the council's register for specified periods.
The doctors whose registrations have been suspended are Dr Ishtiaque Azad, Dr Mahbub Morshed and Dr SM Muktadir of J S Diagnostic and Medical Checkup Centre in Malibagh, Dhaka; Dr Tasnuva Mahzabeen and Dr Syed Sabbir Ahmed of United Medical College Hospital in Badda; Dr Touhidur Rahman and Dr Sohely Islam of Shailkupa Private Children's Hospital and Chhanda Diagnostic Centre in Jhenaidah; Dr Merina Jesmin, Dr Md Shaikhul Arafat and Dr Md Eshaq Ali of Alok Health Care in Ghatail, Tangail.
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Under the terms of the suspensions, Dr Ishtiaque Azad and Dr SM Muktadir will be barred from practising for two years, while Dr Touhidur Rahman and Dr Sohely Islam will be suspended for one year. The other doctors will be suspended for six months.
The BMDC's 54th council meeting found the allegations against the doctors to be substantiated, and the action was taken under provisions of the BMDC Act, 2010 and the BMDC Regulations, 2022.
Three doctors from the Malibagh diagnostic centre are linked to the death of a 10-year-old boy, Ahnaf Tahmid Ayham, who died during a circumcision procedure in February 2024.
Two doctors from United Medical College Hospital were connected with the death of a five-year-old child during a similar procedure.
Other suspensions relate to allegations of negligent reporting and unprofessional conduct in Tangail, where a worker was reportedly misled into believing he had gallstones, and in Shailkupa, where two pregnant women died during Caesarean operations at an unregistered facility.
