Staff Reporter :
Khadiza Akhter Nargis, the victim of a brutal attack by a BCL leader, would be discharged from Dhaka’s Square Hospitals soon as doctors find her condition stable.
“Khadiza is now out of danger. We conducted several surgeries and ensured her proper treatment here,” hospital’s Deputy Director Mirza Nazim said this at a media briefing on Saturday afternoon at the hospital premises.
He said: “Her muscles are working now and she has regained full consciousness. She cannot make a grip with her left hand properly as yet. She should now be shifted to a good rehabilitation centre for further improvement.” “Even if Khadiza is fit to be discharged, the doctors are going to keep her in the hospital until Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) ensures a bed for her, he said, adding, “She needs to undergo therapies for her rehabilitation”. Khadiza also appeared before the briefing and sought blessings of all for her early recovery.
“You have prayed for me. I hope you will pray for me in future also,” Khadiza said at the briefing.
She also expressed her gratitude to the hospital authorities and media.
Earlier, the State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki said that the government will bear all treatment costs of Khadiza.
The State Minister stated that after visiting Khadiza at Square Hospitals on October 5.
“We are following it as per instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” Chumki added.
On October 3, Khadiza was hacked brutally by Badrul Alam, a fourth-year student at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) and also senior assistant secretary of the BCL unit in SUST.
She was hacked on the campus of Sylhet MC College where the 23-year-old had gone to sit for an examination. Locals caught Badrul as he tried to flee the scene and handed him to police. He later confessed before a Sylhet magistrate that he had tried to kill Khadiza.
Khadiza was first taken to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital from where she was moved to Dhaka. She is now undergoing treatment at the Square Hospitals. She was in a coma when she was admitted to Neuro Intensive Care Unit of the hospital and was put on life support, which was removed recently after her condition improved gradually.
Meanwhile, on November 15, a Sylhet court took into cognisance the charge-sheet against suspended Badrul in connection with the gruesome attack.
The court accepted the charge sheet and fixed November 29 for hearing on charge framing against Badrul.
Harun-ur Rashid, a sub-inspector of Shahparan Police Station, submitted the charge-sheet before the Court on November 8 against Badrul, the lone accused in the case.
