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Amit loses his lonely battle

DMCH CORRESPONDENT
Mother of Saikat Rahman Amit bursts into tears beside her son's body after his death at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital yesterday.
Amit's battle for life came to an end yesterday when he succumbed to wild polio from which he has been suffering for the last five years after his windpipe of artificial pacemaker got disconnected accidentally.
"The windpipe of artificial pacemaker by which he used to take oxygen was disconnected and he died within minutes," Moshiur Rahman, father of Amit, told The Daily Star with tears rolling down his cheeks.
Saikat Rahman Amit, 17, the first patient with wild polio in the country, was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 12. With almost his entire body, from the neck downward, paralysed, Amit had been confined to bed for the last five years living on artificial breathing system. After being treated at Bangobandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMUH) for two years Amit went back home on February 28, 2001.
Amit was a sixth grade student of Ideal High School of Banasree branch when he became sick. Amit's appeal to the 140 million people of the countrymen through the print and electronic media, where Amit said that a contribution of one taka from everyone could help him survive, moved the people.
Thousands came forward to help
the ailing boy. Students from across the country collected money to help him and nearly Tk 1 crore was collected in no time. He then received treatment in BSMMUH for two years and went back home from hospital with an artificial breathing pacemaker.
"We had to keep eyes on him constantly as we knew he would die within five minutes if his windpipe got disconnected. It got displaced a few times before but we managed to fix it. Yesterday nobody was around and he died," Moshiur said.
The family sources said his father was in his workplace while his mother was in the kitchen when Amit died. Amit was reading a Bangla newspaper after having breakfast when his mother saw him alive for the last time.
"The mother suddenly realised that she had not heard anything from Amit for a few minutes and rushed to his bed. The windpipe was disconnected and Amit's face had become yellow," said his father.
His family members rushed him to the local doctors and then to the BSMMUH. Doctors announced his death at noon.
His namaz e janaja was held in Basabo and later he was buried at the Banani graveyard last night.