Thursday, July 10th, 2008A 48-year-old farmer lost his life yesterday after awaiting medical attention at the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for over six hours, as his family ran to and fro from one unit to another to find the right doctor to attend the ailing man.It took another half an hour from the time of the man's death before a doctor saw him, only to declare him dead.The apparent negligence of the DMCH unit claimed the life of Kazi Abul Hashem, a 48-year-old farmer whose family rushed him from Brahmanhata village in Koshba, Brahmanbaria in the early hours yesterday.The ...
(read more) Saturday, June 30th, 2007Another Bangladeshi female worker, subjected to inhuman treatment by her employer in Dubai, returned to the country yesterday only to be robbed of her savings.Earlier last week, Ismat Ara returned home and became a news headline of The Daily Star after she narrated inhuman torture by the wife of her master in Dubai.Moyna Begum returned home yesterday failing to bear inhuman torture by the wife of her employer.Misfortune continued to pursue her even in the home country and on her way to Munshiganj home from the Zia International Airport, she fell victim to a gang of 'ogyan party' who took ...
(read more) Saturday, May 5th, 2007An outbreak of diarrhoea and other diseases due to the scorching heat of midsummer is causing a huge rush of patients at different hospitals of the capital. More than 500 patients suffering from diarrhoea and other diseases were admitted to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) till yesterday noon.Doctors on duty said usually during the period of April-May and August-October the number of patients rises and sometimes doubles, which was expected to cross 700 by 4:00pm yesterday giving an indication of an outbreak.The patients admitted yesterday were mostly labourers, an overwhelming number of whom were also ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Three people died and at least 50 were injured as a devastating fire swept through the 11-storey Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC) Bhaban in the city's Karwan Bazar yesterday morning.Over a thousand people were evacuated as massive rescue efforts including the first-ever airborne rescue operation went on throughout the day.According to witnesses and employees of offices in the building, the fire might have originated in one of two offices--Bengal Carpet or Jamuna Oil Company Ltd--on the first floor around 10:10am.It soon spread to other floors due to the absence of effective fire extinguishers.The home ministry formed a ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 27th, 2007"Tongues of fire all around me! I am being roasted alive! Help!" These were the last words Maksuda Begum (45) sent to her husband over her mobile. Then the set went silent, in an eerie way. Akbar Hossain knew something terrible had happened to her wife. Something ominous. He turned numb.Maksuda was then hurtling down to the ground from the sixth floor of the building. She worked as a peon on the ninth floor at the Bangladesh Steel Engineering Corporation (BSEC) office.In her frantic scramble for life, she ran down to the sixth floor but then a wall of ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007Victim of acid violence on the wedding night, Sabina succumbed to her injuries yesterday morning after struggling for 22 days at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) burn unit.Talking to this correspondent only three days ago, Sabina had expressed optimism about her survival saying that a foreign expert had said so after examining her.She, however, also deplored that she was not getting proper treatment and financial assistance.When contacted, Dr Samanta Lal Sen, project director of DMCH Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit, told The Daily Star yesterday that Sabina was given the best treatment available at the hospital.Daughter of Sirajuddin of ...
(read more) Saturday, February 10th, 2007Panic gripped the visitors at Dhaka Zoo yesterday noon when a Royal Bengal Tiger attacked its food provider inside the cage, came out of it and roamed the zoo premises for about half an hour. The victim, Mujibar Rahman Sheikh, 40, employee of an animal food supply contractor at the zoo, narrowly survived with injuries to his arms, thighs, neck and chest.Scores of people including women and children were seen running helter skelter for safety as they found the majestic animal out of its cage. As the news spread like wildfire, hundreds of people who went to the zoo ...
(read more) Wednesday, February 7th, 2007A group of muggers yesterday snatched Tk 10 lakh from the staffs of a garment factory at the city's Dhanmondi area injuring one.The snatchers came by three motorbikes and stopped the car of MNS Garments on Dhanmondi Road No 8 at around 2:00 pm and fired on the windshield leaving car driver Abdul Alim, 32, hurt.Alim received bullet in his hand and was given treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.Alim told The Daily Star that the muggers attacked them while they were returning to the head office at Kalabagan after drawing cash from Uttara Bank's Satmasjid road branch.After taking the ...
(read more) Sunday, January 28th, 2007At least seven people, including a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel, were injured as a bomb went off near a parked Rab patrol van at Gulistan in the capital yesterday evening. The injured are: Rab Assistant Sub-Inspector Saifur Rahman, Md Milon, 12, Nasiruddin, 35, Azizul Haque, 32, Abul Bashar, 35, Abdur Rahsid, 55, and Saidul Hasan, 35. They were all undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).Saidul Hasan received injuries to his head and thighs and he was stated to be in a critical condition while Saifur received injuries to his right arm and leg.Witnesses said the bomb ...
(read more) Saturday, January 27th, 2007Only hours after all marriage rituals were over and newly wed Sabina and Khairul were in their room, a piercing scream ripped through the dead of night, waking up everyone. No one had ever heard such a scream from a bride's room on her wedding night.The bride, Sabina Yasmin, 20, did not have a nightmare. Someone had just poured acid all over her body while she and her husband were asleep.Just 12 hours of entering conjugal life, Sabina fell victim to the revenge of some people who had long dispute with her husband's family.When she was supposed to spend happy ...
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