Online Desk  :  Doctors across the country on Sunday afternoon announced they were withdrawing their duty boycott movement against workplace attacks on colleagues at Dhaka Medical College the previous day. At 6pm Sunday, they announced they would be returning to their duties.

The decision came three hours after leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement joined a meeting with the protesting doctors and Dhaka Medical College (DMC) chief Brigadier General Asaduzzaman at the hospital’s seminar room. Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah represented Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during the meeting.

On Saturday, some private university students harassed doctors at DMC blaming them for the death of another student. Two other incidents of violence on DMC premises occurred on the same day, prompting doctors to call for countrywide indefinite strike until their workplace security is ensured and Saturday’s attackers are booked.