President Md Abdul Hamid on Wednesday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and Liberation War veteran Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury.
In a condolence message, the head of state prayed for the eternal peace of his departed soul and conveyed profound sympathy to the bereaved family.
Dr Zafrullah breathed his last at 11:35pm on Tuesday at Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment. He was 81.
A leading civil society figure and a vascular surgeon by background, Dr Zafrullah had been suffering from kidney ailment for a long time alongside liver problems and septicemia since he was infected with Covid-19.
He died hours after doctors said he was responding to the treatment.