Naeem Ara Hussain, wife of former chief information commissioner (CIC) Prof Golam Rahman, died at a city hospital in the early hours of Tuesday.
“Naeem Ara Hussain died at 5:40am today,” Rahman wrote in his facebook post. She was 65.
Nayeem Ara had been undergoing treatment for nearly a month at the Bangladesh Specialized Hospital with different ailments including pneumonia and diabetes.
Prof Rahman, who served as the chairman of state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and a retired professor of Mass Communication and Journalism at Dhaka University, lives in Gulshan’s Niketan area along with his family.
On May 29, his wife was tested positive for coronavirus and later Prof Rahman and few other of his family members also tested positive.
As the health condition of his wife, who was a teacher of the city’s Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, deteriorated, she was admitted to the hospital.
She along with other family members were tested negative for Covid-19 on July 1. But Naeem Ara was kept at the hospital as she did not recover from other ailments.
On Sunday, she was taken to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital, Prof Rahman wrote on his facebook post.
Dhaka University (DU) Mass Communication and Journalism Department teachers and students mourned her death on their Facebook posts and conveyed their sympathy to the bereaved family.
DU former Vice-Chancellor and newly appointed chairman of BSS Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Naeem Ara Hussain.
In a condolence message, he said Naeem Ara, a well-behaved personality, maintained a very good term with the mass communication and journalism department family of the university.
“Journalism family has lost a close relative in her death. She was very much generous in hosting any guest,” Prof Arefin, also a teacher of Mass Communication and Journalism at DU, told BSS over phone.
He also conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.
