Sending shock waves to the nation, a man in Savar has chosen the most tragic way to escape paying bill of a hospital by throwing his 25-day-old boy from the rooftop of the hospital.
Fazlul Hoque, father of Abdullah, yesterday confessed to the police after conducting the brutal act on Monday morning.
The baby was born in a local hospital in Savar on July 2. He started suffering from viral blood infection and pneumonia since birth.
Fazlul, who is a private car driver, admitted his son to Enam Medical College and Hospital four days after his birth. Abdullah was admitted at the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital and his mother Nurunnahar, 25, kept at cabin number 716.
After receiving treatment for 21 days, Abdullah was sent to the cabin to stay with his parents on Sunday. In the night, Abdullah, Nurunnahar, Fazlul and his sister Jobeda Khatun, 50, stayed in the cabin.
Fazlul confessed to Savar police that he could not sleep at that night as the hospital had prepared a bill of Tk2,50,000 which he had to pay on Monday morning, said Additional Police Super of Dhaka Ashraful Azim.
He was also worried that the child might get infected again after going back home. So to get rid of the stress and tension he threw the child away from seventh floor of the hospital.
Ashraful said: “To escape paying the bill, Fozlul chose this path of cruelty. He confessed of killing his newborn boy during primary interrogation.”
In the morning, the hospital authorities found the body of the baby lying on the ground behind the hospital building. They recovered the body and informed police.
Police sent the body to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for an autopsy and detained Fazlul’s sister Jobeda Khatun in this connection on Monday. Police yesterday released Jobeda and arrested Fozlul following his confession.
