By Debraj Deb, Atri Mitra
A day after a hospital in Kolkata said it will not treat patients from Bangladesh over alleged disrespect to the Indian flag there, a multi-specialty healthcare facility in Agartala followed suit on Saturday.
“As an Indian, we respect and support the emotions of people who came today. With this thought, we want to iterate that Bangladeshi people have insulted us, have mistreated our people and we shall not provide any service to them…,” an executive of Agartala’s ILS Hospitals told the media Monday.
The statement from ILS Hospitals came on a day when an Indo-Bangla international passenger bus rammed into another bus while crossing the Biswa Road in Bangladesh’s Brahmanbaria district. The Tripura government claimed the bus came “under attack”.
“… a goods-carrying truck deliberately rammed into the bus with the intention to cause an accident… After the incident, local people started hurling threats to Indian passengers in the vehicle. Anti-India slogans were raised and life threats were made to them,” Tripura Transport and Tourism Minister Sushanta Chowdhury wrote on social media.
On Friday, the JN Ray Hospital in Kolkata’s Maniktala announced it will not treat any Bangladeshi patients as a sign of protest over the manner in which “the national flag of India has been desecrated in various places” in the neighbouring country. BJP leader Sajal Ghosh, a councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, is one of the directors of this hospital.
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