Not taking steps for injured people is first failure of interim govt: Hasnat Abdullah

The first failure of the interim government is that it didn't take any visible steps to stand by the injured people and deceased of the movement that toppled the previous government.

Hasnat Abdullah, one of the coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, said this on Friday evening while visiting hospitals to see the injured.

The coordinators visited hospitals on Friday evening as a part of a scheduled programme of "Resistance Week" named 'Stand With Injured'.

Abdul Kader, Rifat Rashid were present among the coordinators of the movement.

Hasnat Abdullah said, "As part of our resistance week, today our programme was 'stand with injured'. we have visited Dhanmondi Medical College, Mugda Medical college, Dhaka Medical College, Mitford Medical College and Sheikh Hasina Burn Unit to see our fellows. Our coordinators also visited other Hospitals."

"Visiting the hospitals, I realised that the members of law enforcement agencies fired lethal bullets aiming to kill people. It requires intensive investigation," Hasnat said.

"The condition of most of the patients are not good. They must need better treatment. The first failure of the interim government is that they couldn't even prepare a complete list of the injured and deceased. Most of the injured require international standard treatment. The government should ensure this at the first move. We are condemning the government's health department for this," he said, demanding better treatment for the injured fellows.

Regarding their activities and visits to hospitals, Hasnat said, "we neither have any political authority nor any legal authority to control the people. What we are doing here is nothing but voluntary work. The students who are working on the streets and managing traffic signals are also doing voluntary work. The government should take quick and visible steps to ensure better treatment for the injured as we came to know that there are many injured people who were only earning money for their family."

Abdul Kader, another coordinator, said, "we came to know that some so called coordinators are doing wrong deeds using the banner of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. We are boldly saying that if any coordinators do anything wrong, we will take steps against them immediately."

Again, there are fake coordinators too who are using the name to gain personal interest. You all have to be aware of them, he added.