The interns of Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital went on an indefinite strike on Monday following a case filed the Ekushey Television (ETV) authorities against its director and four interns for alleged assault on journalists .Moaibul Islam Shoyeb, president of Mitford Hospital unit Chhatra League and an intern, said a total of 207 interns of the hospital went on work abstention following the case filed by ETV.Earlier, The Ekushey Television (ETV) authorities on Monday filed a case against Mitford Hospital director Brig Gen Md Jakir Hasan and four interns for their alleged involvement in assaulting some journalists of the private television channel. ETV director Dr Md Jahidul Islam filed the case with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court.On April 19, interns of the hospital attacked and injured six journalists, including a cameraman, of ETV when they went there for collecting information for “Ekusher Chokh”, an investigative programme of the channel.
