DU Correspondent :
Within a matter of three days, a student of Dhaka University lost his father, who died after being diagnosed with Covid-19, and then his elder brother, who passed away after suffering from coronavirus-like symptoms.
With a heavy heart, the youth is now heading towards his village home in Chandanaish upazila of Chattogram from their house in Halishahar area of the port city for the burial of
his brother who died last night. And that too with the shattering memory of his father’s death three days before still vivid in his mind, and the worries over what future awaits for the rest of the family comprising him, his mother, brother and sister.
The student of DU’s Management and Information Systems department, on May 12, posted in Facebook about the difficulty he faced to have his father tested for Covid-19 after he exhibited symptoms.
“I have been going to hospitals one after another since morning. My father’s condition requires him to be admitted at a hospital. But no one is admitting him saying that coronavirus test report is necessary prior to ICU admission. Sample will be collected tomorrow morning and it would take some days to get the result,” he said in the post.
His father died the next day, and later his sample tested positive for Covid-19.
“His father died on May 13 and tested positive for Covid-19 posthumously,” Rafiqul Islam, office-in-charge of Halishahar Police Station, told the media quoting the student.
“His brother died last night with coronavirus-like symptoms. Sample of his brother has been collected for coronavirus test,” the OC said. The DU student also informed police about their financial problems and police arranged an ambulance for taking his brother’s body to Chandnaish upazila for burial, OC Rafiqul added.
The student and his other brother have tested negative for Covid-19 while his mother and sister are yet to be tested. Contacted, DU Proctor Prof AKM Golam Rabbani said the university authorities are standing by the student.
“I have talked with him and the local administration. We’ll be there for him and I have already requested the concerned authorities to disinfect their home,” said Prof Rabbani.
