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PM orders best possible treatment for madrasah girl Nusrat
DHAKA, April 8, 2019 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed
health authorities to ensure best possible treatment for Nusrat, a madrasah
girl, struggling for life as a madrasah principal allegedly manifested his
vengeance setting her on fire for refusing to withdraw sexual harassment
charges against him.
“The Prime Minister called me up and asked us to take steps to send her to
Singapore for her (Nusrat’s) better treatment,” Sheikh Hasina National
Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery’s coordinator at Dhaka Medical College
Hospital (DMCH) Samanta Lal Sen told reporters this afternoon.
He said the premier issued directives to contact a Singapore hospital and
“send her there, if they (Singapore hospital) agree to treat her”.
But doctors at the facility said Nusrat’s condition made it difficult for
her treatment abroad as 80 percent of her body including the respiratory
system were burnt exposing her to breathing problems.
“She has been put on life support,” said Samanta Lal while another doctor
at the facility said her condition deteriorated overnight.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque, meanwhile, visited the burn institute to
see Nusrat and later talked to newsmen outside when he described her
condition to be “very critical”.
“Yet, if her family wants and the Singapore Hospital authorities agree, we
will send her there,” Maleque said.
Sheikh Hasina earlier today sent her Special Assistant Biplob Barua to the
burn institute to see the girl.
Nusrat had accused Feni’s Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasah principal
Sirajuddoula of harassing her sexually on March 27 while she was exposed to
his extreme vengeance on April 6 when she went to the madrasah to appear in
the HSC equivalent “Alim” examination.
A group of masked youths, reported to be principal’s stooge, took Nusrat
to the rooftop and set her on fire in their bid to kill her.
Feni police said the principal was already behind the bar in another case
while they launched a manhunt to catch the culprits who tried to kill her.
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