Child’s Death: DGHS orders closure of United Medical College

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) ordered the closure of United Medical College Hospital in Badda area in the capital following the death of five-year-old child Ayan after circumcision.

DGHS issued a notification in this regard on Sunday (January 14). The notice was signed by Director (Hospitals) Dr Abu Hussain Md Moinul Ahsan.

Earlier on January 9, Ayan's father, Shamim Ahmed, filed a case against two doctors, unnamed officials and a director of United Hospital and United Medical College Hospital in this connection with Badda police station.

Ayan was taken to United Medical College Hospital on Badda Madani Avenue by his father, Shamim Ahmed, for circumcision on a Tk10,000 package on December 31.

Ayan was given full anaesthesia there, reportedly without parental consent.

When, several hours after the operation, he still was not conscious, the hospital moved him to its Gulshan branch.

Following seven days of keeping Ayan on life support, medical professionals in the paediatric intensive care unit declared him dead late on Sunday (January 7).