Patients have been facing serious problems in entering or leaving Dhaka Medical College Hospital for about two years as its emergency gate or the main entrance remains almost blocked due to construction of Asad Memorial Museum.
Emergency patients are forced to enter the hospital through a narrow alternative passage.
The main road in front of the DMCH has also remained closed due to the construction work.
Ambulances can enter the hospital only through the emergency entrance.
Before the main entrance was blocked ambulances used to bring patients using it virtually round the clock.
Closing of the area between Chandkharpul and the emergency entrance to the premier hospital with corrugated iron sheets has turned it into a haven for muggers and drug peddlers, said DMCH officials.
'Emergency and burn patients have been facing serious problem getting into the hospital as the only entrance to the units remain blocked,' said DMCH director Shahidul Haque Mallik.
On an average, he said, every day 500 seek treatment or admission at DMCH emergency while the hospital's burn unit receive 300 patients. He said that neither Dhaka City Corporation nor Dhaka University authorities consulted DMCH before closing its main entrance for the work.
Mallik said blocking the road in front of the hospital led to overcrowding at the DMCH emergency entrance obstructing the entry of patients and their attendants.
He said it also facilitated increased stealing, mugging, drug peddling at the blocked space.
Mallik said that a rickshaw stand had been established within the hospital boundary taking advantage of the situation.
On January 20, 2008, mayor of Dhaka Sadeque Hossain Khoka and the then Dhaka University vice chancellor SMA Fayez had laid the foundation stone of Shaheed Asad Smarani and Asad Museum in front of the emergency entrance of DMCH.
Death of Dhaka University student leader Asaduzzaman, shot by police on January 20, 1969 in front of what is now the DMCH emergency, entrance was the turning point in the mass movement that brought Ayub's rule to an end.
The site manager Anwer Hossain said that piling had been completed, but due to the rains work on pile integrity test cannot be done now.
He said the design of the Shaheed Asad Memorial and Museum had to be changed several times, requiring more time to complete the work.
Another factor which cost extra time in completing the work was, he said, shifting telephone cable underground for laying the sewer pipe.
Dhaka City Corporation, said its chief engineer Abul Hossain, was waiting for the dry season for pile integrity test.
He, however, said that he was not in a position to say when the city corporation would be able to complete the work.
There is no billboard at the site to announce the contractors, though two companies, Mahbub and Brothers and Khan and Sons are doing it.
No design of the museum is displayed at the site either.
Source : New Age
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