“I don’t know what I will do. Doctors even did not say anything. Please ask them and let me know. My children are crying at home,” wailing Sharifa Akther, pleaded.
Sharifa, wife of an auto-rickshaw driver who sustained burn injury during the on-going opposition-sponsored blockade, wanted to know when her husband’s ordeal would come to an end as she had to go back home.
Siddiqur, 45, husband of Sharifa, is now undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with 17% burn injury.
As his respiratory system was affected he was shifted to ICU two days back at DMCH last Tuesday.
Sharifa, was talking to this correspondent in front of the ICU gate.
She said she had a three-year-old boy and two daughters – one aged 10 and the other 04 – back at home in Mymensing.
“I rushed to Dhaka as my husband suffered burn injury,” she said.
On January 5, around 5pm, Siddiqur came under attack, while he was going back home with his auto-rickshaw under Kotowali police station of Mymensing.
Dr Partha Shankar Pal, residential surgeon of the DMCH Burn Unit, said he could not say something for sure as anything could happen.
Meantime, private car driver Abul Kalam, 28, who received 33% burn injury from a petrol bomb attack on Friday night, was shifted to the ICU from High Deficiency Unit as his condition deteriorated.
His mother Safia Begum, was sitting beside his bed. “Please pray for my son,” she murmured.
Dr Partha Shankar Pal, said Kalam was shifted to ICU as his respiratory system too was affected from the burn attack. “We are trying our best and hopeful that he would recover soon.”
Kalam was sleeping inside a private car after parking it in front of Agora Shopping Centre at Moghbazar area on Friday night.
Around 11.30pm, unidentified miscreants threw petrol bombs into the car and a fire broke out in no time leaving Kalam badly injured.
Another victim, a truck driver PR Ahmed, 55, took admission to DMCH with 15% burn injury yesterday.
The victim was going to Garura of Bailla area of Comilla after loading his truck with sand from Haziganj area.
PR Ahmed further said while he reached at Poranpur area of Laksham Police Station, some pickets threw petrol bombs at him around 11pm on Saturday and before he came out of the vehicle it went up in flame burning his face and two arms badly.
Meanwhile, Md Selim, 35, a laguna driver received 34% burn injury while he was going to Motjheel from Mugad area.
Selim, said when he reached Sardar Garments of Kamlapur Bazar Road around 7pm, two persons stopped him saying they would take a ride.
As I stopped they first damaged the window of the laguna and then set it on fire with petrol. Before he came down his hands, face, back and legs suffered burn injury.
According to burn institute register book, a total of 15 people have taken treatment after they received burn injury in attacks during the countrywide on-going blockade over the last six days.
Of them, one died yesterday while the seven others are undergoing treatment.
