Young woman met tragic end
A young woman met her tragic end of life when her modesty scarf clipped with a running wheel of a battery run van rickshaw on Khulna-Mongla Highway near at Shyambagat Bus Stand under Fakirhat Upazila in Bagerhat district on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Najma Aktar (22), daughter of one Abdul Kuddus Shaikh of village Nababpur within Khanpur Union Parishad under Sadara Upazila in the same district.
It is learnt from the Highway police and the locals that in the morning the ill-fated woman was going from Chulkathi towards Katakhali by a battery run van rickshaw and when it reached the place of occurrence her modesty scarp was, somehow, clipped with one of the wheels of the van.
Old woman of aged 108 dies
Asia Khatun, wife of one late Md Nazir Hossain Lashkar of village Bhatsala under Sadar Upazila in Bagerhat district and aunt (paternal uncle’s wife) of our Bagerhat District Correspondent Prof ABM Mosharraf Husain breathed her last on Saturday due to old aged complications. She was 108. She left behind 2 sons, 1 daughter, grand children and a host of relatives, friends and admirers to mourn her death. She was pious, kind, generous and well behaved all through her life.
Meet on TB control held
Under the auspices of Bagerhat District branch of NATAB (National Anti Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh) a meeting for exchange of views with the journalists of Bagerhat district town to create a social movement in order to control the tuberculosis was held in the local office of the Association of Retired Govt. Employees with FM Mostafizul Haq , Secretary of NATAB, Bagerhat in the chair recently in the morning. While the address of welcome was given by the President explained the need and importance of holding such a meeting for exchange of views.
Dr. Md. Shahidul Islam, former Principal of Bagerhat Medical School while was addressing the meeting as chief the guest told, TB is, no doubt, a fatal disease; but it is not incurable.
Dr. Nazrul Islam, former Consultant of Bagerhat TB Clinic while was speaking in the meeting as the chief guest told, TB is no more a fatal disease at present. It is fully curable if a TB patient is given treatment under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course) system. He added, TB cannot be eradicated completely from the country. So, we should try to control the same and no TB patient will die if he is detected in time and is given proper treatment. So he emphasized on the creation of awareness among the people about TB.
