Kushtia: Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has urged physicians not to enforce any strike ‘keeping patients hostage’.

‘We’ve made progress in the healthcare sector. Doctors must treat patients with patience on humanitarian ground,’ he said.

The Health Minister came up with the remarks while addressing a conference on Kushtia Medical College campus on Friday night.

Pointing at the doctors, Nasim said there is no scope to send a patient home without treatment in any public hospital.

He, however, observed that patients’ attendants should also not attack or harass doctors for their unintentional mistakes.

The minister informed that a law will be enacted to protect doctors from such attacks.

On politics, Nasim, also a presidium member of the ruling Awami League, said his party does not believe in the democracy that ‘burns people and cause sufferings to them’.

‘We believe in the democracy that teaches people to survive and it is Sheikh Hasina who is doing the job properly,’ he said.

Nasim observed that no country in the world can make progress without a long-term government.