A case has been filed under the Human Trafficking Act against four people, including two physicians, on charge of stealing newborns in Rajshahi.  Syeda Tamanna Akhtar, a resident of Talaimari area in the city, lodged the case at Rajpara Police Station on Sunday.  Sub-Inspector Kajal Nandi from Rajpara Police Station said the accused in the case include Dr. Nishat Anam Barna from the Gynecology Department of Rajshahi Royal Hospital and Dr. Ali Chowdhury Rimon from the Anesthesia Department of the same hospital.  Police are currently conducting an investigation into the matter, he said.  According to the case statement, Syeda Tamanna visited Royal Hospital in Lakshmipur area of the city last Thursday with labor pains.  Based on the doctor's advice, she was admitted to the hospital around 2 pm and taken to the Operation Theater (OT) around 3 pm. After spending an hour in the OT, she was discharged.  The doctors informed them that there was no baby in her womb after the operation.  The patient and her family members said that she was expecting twins.  They claimed that after being taken to the OT and receiving anesthesia, she gave birth, but the hospital staff allegedly stole her baby. Tamanna said the ultrasound report confirmed that she was carrying a boy and a girl.  “If it was stillborn, they should have at least given it to me. Why did I carry a baby for 9 months and 12 days if my baby isn't here?” she said.  Dr. Ali Chowdhury Rimon said that the patient's condition was critical. He heard from her brother that she was carrying twins, and even the patient believed she had a baby in her womb. Therefore, he administered an anaesthetic injection.  Dr. Nishat Anam Barna claimed that a woman arrived at the hospital showing all the signs of pregnancy. Before an examination could take place, she went into labor.  “The patient's relatives failed to provide any documents or seek advice,” she said.   

Two physicians and six policemen are among 18 new coronavirus patients detected in five districts in the last 24 hours.   Bogura Deputy Civil Surgeon Mostafizur Rahman on Monday night said reports of eight people, including two physicians, came out positive.   So far, the district has recorded 179 cases.   In Khulna, six members of Khalishpur Industrial police and four others were diagnosed with coronavirus.   The policemen are - Md Ramjan, 51, Ajay Chandra Sarkar, Takbir, 20, Md Rafiqul Islam, Shahdhor, Al Amin, 20.   Besides, two men from Magura and Jashore tested positive for coronavirus.   In Thakurgaon, a couple has been infected with coronavirus in Baliadangi upazila.   The infected 23-year-old youth and his wife, 18, are readymade garment (RMG) workers. They recently returned from Dhaka to their Moheshmari-Kalmegh village.   Civil Surgeon Md Mahfuzar Rahman said the number of coronavirus cases rose to 63 in the district.   Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. Until Monday, the country’s confirmed coronavirus cases were 35,585.   Besides, 501 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported since March 18.

The dormitory of Sheikh Hasina Software Technology in Jashore is being used for quarantining physicians, nurses and other health workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.   The local administration said four doctors and six nurses have been kept in quarantine at the dormitory since April 25 after State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak gave the permission.

A physician and a health worker, were infected with coronavirus in the district.   Dr Himangshu Lal Roy, assistant director of Osmani Medical College Hospital, said 13 people were tested positive under Sylhet division on Wednesday. Of them, an intern doctor of the Osmani Medical College and Hospital and a medical staff of Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital were found detected with the virus in the district, he said.   The reports of 134 people were found on Wednesday and of them 13 tested positive. Four people reported positive from Sunamganj, five from Habiganj and two from Moulvibazar districts, he said.

The High Court on Wednesday ordered the authorities concerned to recruit 117 physicians to fill up the vacant posts of jail hospitals across the country as soon as possible.