Staff Reporter :
Doctors at the Square Hospitals on Monday conducted a surgery on the right arm of Khadiza Begum Nargis, who was hacked brutally by Badrul Alam, a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit.
“The operation was successful and we hope her hand will gradually become fully functional,” Mesbah Uddin Ahmed, an Orthopedic Surgeon of the hospital told reporters in the evening. He said, “Some tendons of her fingers cut in the attack were operated successfully. But some physiotherapy will be needed to regain full functionality of the hand.”
The Surgeon said another surgery will also be conducted on her left hand as there are injuries. We will wait till her overall condition improves before another surgery.
“The functionality of the left hand, however, will depend on whether her left limbs remain paralysed,” he said.
On October 3, Khadiza was hacked brutally by Badrul Alam, a fourth-year student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (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 to trying to kill Khadiza before a Sylhet magistrate.
After she was brought to the capital’s Square Hospitals, neurosurgeons operated on her brain and waited till today to conduct a surgery on her hand.
Physicians earlier informed that Khadiza’s left limbs were paralysed as the right side of her brain was injured in the attack. Director of Square Hospitals Mirza Nazim Uddin earlier told journalists that Khadiza might have initially tried to protect herself by covering her face with her arms during the attack, which resulted in injuries to her arms.
