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Report in case over United Hospital fire death July 5
DHAKA, June 04, 2020 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today set July 5 for submitting a probe report in a case lodged over death of a patient in a fire incident in the capital’s United Hospital.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Sufian Noman passed the order, accepting the first information report (FIR) filed in the case.
A deadly fire engulfed the makeshift corona isolation unit raised on the premises of the hospital on May 27. Five patients were burnt to death inside the isolation unit.
Son-in-law of a victim Anthony Vernon Paul, filed the case on June 3 with capital’s Gulshan Police Station against United Hospital officials for causing the death of his father-in-law through their negligence.
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