Dhaka: Doctors kept their private chambers closed across Bangladesh on Tuesday as part of their protest against assault on doctors and vandalism at the Central Hospital in the city following the death of a student of Dhaka University.

Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) took the decision at a meeting held on Saturday, said Dr Ehtasamul Haque Chowdhury, secretary general of the association.

The association leaders also demanded punishment of the students who were involved in the incident and security of the doctors.

They will also form a human chain in the city on Saturday protesting the incident.

Earlier on Thursday afternoon, Afia Jahan Chaity, 20, a first year student of Zoology Department of the university, died at the Central Hospital due to wrong treatment there.

Chaity, hailing from Chapainawabganj district, was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday last as she fell sick and later she was diagnosed with leukemia, but he discharge paper said, 'Chaity died of dengue fever".

As news of her death spread, 150-200 DU students became furious and vandalised a number of rooms in the hospital.

Later, Dhaka University authorities filed a medical malpractice case with Dhanmondi police station against the hospital authorities for Chaity's death.