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Wounded moved to private hospitals for treatment dearth

Staff Correspondent
The injured victims in Saturday's grenade blasts, who were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), were moved to other hospitals as the DMCH could not accommodate such a huge number of patients.
The victims alleged they did not get adequate space and care, medicine, saline and blood at the country's premier public hospital.
The situation was almost similar at Bangladesh Medical College Hospital (BMCH), ZH Shikdar Medical College Hospital (Shikdar Hospital), Central Hospital, Shamarita Hospital and Trauma Centre. Patients were still cramming the beds and floors of the hospitals running short on space, doctors and medicine.
DMCH
Several critically-injured people were found lying on the floors with noone beside them, as their relatives are yet to know about their fate.
Not only beds but also floors of wards 32, 30, 33 and 35 were packed with injured patients. Relatives of many of the injured said hospital authorities are not providing the patients with required medicines.
Eleven of the injured were being treated at ward No. 32, four in ward No. 30 and three in ward No. 33.
The bomb victims alleged they did not get care, medicine, saline and blood although there was no rush at the hospital yesterday.
"I had spent Tk 1,500 on getting medicine since my admission here, the authorities failed to provide me with basic medicines," alleged Monir.
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"Doctors have seen me only twice for a few minutes in the last 20 hours," he said.
DMCH Director Nazmul Huda told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon, "We've ensured necessary supply of medicine and there is no crisis of medicine here now." SHIKDER HOSPITAL
The fourth and fifth floors of the hospital were crowded and there was hardly any space to move. Good numbers of visitors were waiting at the reception lounge to have a glimpse of their leaders. Among the injured central leaders, condition of Abdur Razzak, Obaidul Quader, Sahara Khatun, Enamul Haque Shamim and Ajoy Kar Khokon was improving. Bangladesh Chhatra League General Secretary Nazrul Islam Babu was fighting for life with multiple wounds.
"I don't know if I will ever walk on feet again," said Sahara Khatun, AL central leader, at the hospital.
CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Iqbal Hossain, general secretary of Awami League's Dhaka City Corporation ward No. 12 unit, said, "Some of my party activists rushed me to Dhaka Medical (College Hospital) immediately after the incident but no seat was to be found there. They later took me to Shamarita Hospital where the situation was the same."
With a chunk of flesh blown off his right leg, he was later rushed to Central Hospital where doctors operated on him for three hours.
One of the assistant general secretaries of AL central committee, Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, was also admitted to the hospital.
AL leaders Iqbal Hossain and Azizur Rahman were also being treated there.
BANGLADESH MEDICAL
Bahauddin Nasim, Pankaj Devnath and Akhter Hossain along with nine others injured are being treated at the hospital. Condition of Nasim was
stated to be critical. His wife Sultana Shamima Chowdhury quoting doctors said they could not say anything about him before 72 hours. He was receiving treatment at the intensive care unit.
SHAMORITA HOSPITAL
Doctors at the hospital declared Suranjit Sengupta out of danger. He had received one splinter in the head and two in the jaw while several others had him in the legs. AL leader Kazi Zafarullah and Neela Chowdhury are also being treated there.
15 DEAD IDENTIFIED
Relatives, party activists and acquaintances have so far identified 15 of the dead, while bodies of three others, kept at the DMCH morgue, are yet to be confirmed.
Women who died in the carnage are Sufiya Begum, 40, secretary of Dhaka City Mohila AL, Hasina Momtaj, 35, president of ward No. 15 Mohila Awami League and Rejiya Akhter, 45, a Hazaribagh Mohila Awami League activist.
The others are Mostaque Ahmed Sentu, 40, assistant secretary of Central AL and son of Afsaruddin Ahmed of Muladi upazila in Barisal district; Mahbub Alam Rashid, 35, driver and bodyguard of AL chief and son of Harunur Rashid Mollah of Fulbaria village in Khokska upazila of Kushtia district; Mohammad Billal Hossain, 24, vice-president of Dhaka
City Ward No. 69 of Jubo League and son of Shamsuddin Ahmed of Agamashi Lane under Kotwali Police Station; Liton Munshi, 35, son of Iyub Ali Munshi of Chandpotti in Madaripur district and Jubo League President of Hossainpur Union Parishad; Abdul Kuddus Patwary, 30, Haimchar upazila Swechchhasebok League activist and son of Delwar Hossain Patowari of Chandpur district; Nasiruddin, 40, AL activist of Dhaka City ward No.58 and son of Falan Sardar of Nobipur Lane in Hazaribagh; Abbas Uddin Ratan alias Ratan Sikder, 35, Narayanganj district AL activist and son of Abdul Haque Sikder of North Mazdail village in Gabtoli upazila; Md Rafiqul Islam alias Ada, 68, vice-president of AL ward No. 24 and a resident of Sipahibagh in Khilgaon; Mamun Mridha, 23, AL activist, student of Kobi Kazi Nuzrul Islam College and son of Motalleb Mridha; Hanif, 40, freedom fighter and resident of East Maniknagar in Dhaka; Atikullah Sarkar, 35, Jubo League leader of Dhaka City ward No. 84 and son of Abdus Salam of North Jatrabari; and Aminul Islam, 24, rickshawpuller and son of Abul Hossain of Thuri in Jamalpur district.
Those unconfirmed are Momin, 36, Jahed Ali, 15, and Abul Kashem, 50.