• Source:JND

Bangladesh Hindus News:  The atrocities and violence being committed against the minority Hindu community and deliberate insult of the Indian national flag in Bangladesh have not bode well with several hospitals in West Bengal and Tripura announcing they will not treat the patients from neighbouring country. A day after West Bengal's JN Ray Hospital in north Kolkata stopped treating patients from Bangladesh, Tripura's Agartala-based ILS Hospital, which has been a popular destination for patients from the neighbouring country due to its proximity and affordable treatment costs, has shut its door for such patients, news agency PTI reported.

"We extend full support to the demand for the suspension of treatment to people from Bangladesh at our health facility. Our help desks at Akhaura check post and ILS hospitals have been closed from today onwards," ILS hospital chief operating officer Gautam Hazarika said.

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Hazarika's comments were a reaction to a protest held at the hospital, where demonstrators demanded an end to medical services for Bangladeshi citizens, citing alleged disrespect for the Indian flag and rising concerns about the treatment of Hindus in Bangladesh.

"Disrespect to the Indian national flag and attacks on minorities is unacceptable. Fundamentalists are imparting training to students on how to disrespect our national flags," one of the protestors said.

Earlier on Friday, a hospital in Manicktala, located in north Kolkata, announced it would stop treating patients from Bangladesh, citing ongoing protests against reported attacks on minority Hindus in the neighbouring nation.

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"Seeing the tricolour being insulted, we have decided to stop treating Bangladeshis. India has played an important role in their independence but despite that, we are witnessing anti-India sentiments. We hope other hospitals will support us and take similar steps," JN Ray Hospital official Subhranshu Bhakt said on Friday.


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