DHAKA, June 25, 2019 (BSS) – A writ seeking direction to ban unnecessary C-section in hospital and clinics across the country, was filed today at High Court.
Supreme Court lawyer and International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) prosecutor Syed Sayedul Haque Suman filed the writ, referring recent reports of BBC and Save the Children.
“Of all the C-section took place in the country in 2018, 77 percent was unnecessary. A section of physicians conduct such operation all for financial gain leaving the mother and her family in jeopardy. Some clinics in the country made its 95 percent income from such unnecessary surgery,” Barrister Suman told BSS.
The lawyer said the High Court may hear the case on June 30.
Barrister Suman, who already gained a huge fan following with his different activities for the welfare of the commoners and society, made secretaries of two divisions of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, president of Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council and director general of Directorate General of Health Services, respondents in the writ.
He also pleaded to issue rule as to why the court shall not declare respondents’ inaction in stopping such unnecessary C-section, illegal.