Monday, January 26, 2015

Their dream in tatters:Daily Star

Unai looking at the burnt face of his father Khokan at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. Khokan got burnt when criminals hurled a petrol bomb at a bus in Jatrabari Friday night. Photo: Amran Hossain Rubel is the eldest son in the family. At 24, he has taken the responsibility of a family of six that includes his one-year-old daughter. He is now lying in the burn unit of th
e Dhaka Medical College Hospital, fighting for his life. A victim of Friday's Jatrabari arson attack, he was admitted to the hospital with 30 percent burns. He sustained injuries to his respiratory organs, according to a doctor at the burn unit. His family members are utterly distressed about his recovery. Settled in Chandpur, they could not even travel to Dhaka to attend him with the blockade going on uninterrupted. Ismail Hossain, one of his relatives, is attending him in their absence.  "He's really an ill-fated boy," said Ismail. Rubel has managed a job at and oxygen company. On the night of the arson, he was returning to his mess where he lives alone in Rupganj of Narayanganj, said Ismail.  If anything bad happens to him, his whole family will be devastated as he is the breadwinner, he added. Advertisement Rubel's colleague Mohammad Sumon was travelling in the same bus that night. He was admitted to the DMCH with  11 percent burns. He too is the eldest son and the breadwinner in a family of seven, his uncle said. Meanwhile, Prof Sazzad Khondoker of the burn unit at a press briefing on hospital premises yesterday, said 86 blockade victims had taken treatment at the hospital so far. Of them, 50 were still admitted and five died. The hospital has formed a multi-disciplinary board to look after various problems of the burn patients. Specialist doctors from different disciplines including ophthalmology, orthopaedics, pulmonology and neurology comprise the board and they will check on the victims each day, said Prof Sazzad. Earlier, burn victims with injuries to different body parts and organs needed to go to related departments for taking treatment. The hospital authority formed another body to take notes from attendees to quicken their recovery. On Saturday, the DMCH authorities restricted visitors' entry to the burn unit to check infection of patients. Meanwhile, after a visit at the DMCH burn unit, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan yesterday urged the well-off people to come forward and stand by the burn patients.

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