News Desk :
Ekushey Padak winning eminent poet Quazi Rosy died early Sunday after failing her battle with COVID-19. She was 73.
She was taken to Square Hospital in the capital on January 30 and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
the following day, according to her daughter Sumi Sikandar, reports UNB.
The poet had been suffering from multi-organ disease, kidney complications and was put on life support on January 31. She tested positive for Covid-19 in between the time and was taken to the isolation unit of the ICU.
Rosy was born on January 1, 1949 in Satkhira. She completed her BA and MA in Bengali Literature from the University of Dhaka. She then started her career by joining the government service and retired as an officer from the Press Information Department (PID) in 2007.
She was elected as a Member of Parliament in the reserved women’s seat at the 10th parliamentary election in 2014.
