Parking arrangements at ICDDR’B needed
The ICDDRB is internationally renowned in the field of treating diarrhoeal diseases and quality diagnosis in pathology.
However, the present capacity of the centre is inadequate to cope with the high number of patients and orders received by blood drawing counters. Moreover, patients arriving by private transport are strictly barred from parking their vehicles inside the gate, but traffic police don’t allow them to park on the roadside either. It’s impossible to send the vehicle back home given that we don’t know how long we might have to stay inside for.
We request the ICDDRB authorities to either allow parking with token payment inside the premises, or make arrangements with the traffic police department for parking alongside the outer wall for a while.
Sirajul Islam
Dhaka
The thrill of winning
On September 30, I was returning from office by taxi. Stuck in traffic in Tejgaon road, a little boy aged eight or nine – thin, bare-footed and wearing torn clothes, urged me to buy some flowers from him. He explained that he hadn’t eaten anything since the previous night, and he had sold enough flowers to barely fill his stomach on that day. I was fumbling into my wallet to pay him when, to my surprise, he started shouting along with everyone else on the streets. “Bangladesh jitche! Dehai diche Bangladesh ki chiz! Shabbash!”
Maybe the boy cannot understand cricket as well as we do, but he forgot his hunger and started celebrating for his country. The boy has taught me what true happiness is.
Md. Mohin Uddin Mizan
University of Chittagong
