Bangladesh, Oct. 28 -- Private ambulance operators at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have suspended their strike for seven days after talks with the hospital director, easing a disruption that left patients and their families scrambling for transport.

Badal Matbar, general secretary of the central committee of the Bangladesh Private Ambulance Owners Welfare Cooperative Association, confirmed the decision on Wednesday.

He said the association had called off the protest on humanitarian grounds, considering the severe hardship faced by patients and relatives travelling to Dhaka from distant areas.

The association's leaders first met hospital director Brig Gen AKM Farhad Hossain to discuss a way out of the impasse.

After talks wit...