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Hospital for FFs shut for years, tools rusting away

SHAHEEN MOLLAH
Valuable medical equipment and vehicles worth over Tk10 crore at the capital's Trust Adhunik Hospital, an organisation of Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust (MKT), are rusting away as the hospital has remained closed for the last six years despite freedom fighters' repeated demand to reopen it.
The hospital could not be reopened as some anti-liberation forces within the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs have been opposing it, some influential MKT
members wishing anonymity alleged.
Sources said five vehicles--of them, three modern ambulances with operation theatre facilities--left abandoned on the hospital compound are going almost out of order. The hospital also has a modern operation theatre and a laboratory for pathological tests, but the equipment is on the verge of ruining and may not be usable again.
A two-storey rehabilitation centre for the freedom fighters was constructed in 1979 on 13 acres of khas land near the Mirpur National Zoo. It was later turned into the Trust
Adhunik Hospital in December 1991, aiming at providing freedom fighters with healthcare and subsidised treatment for their families.
Initially, the hospital was functioning well, but soon due to unknown reasons it was leased out to Umma Medical College Hospital, a non- government organisation, on January 15, 1994 for ten years.
However, the contract was scraped in 1997 and later the hospital was leased out to Captain Mansur Ali Medical College Hospital which ran until 1999. Since then the hospital has remained closed.
There is enough fund, furniture and equipment to run the hospital, yet why has it been kept closed over the years? wondered some freedom fighters.
MKT Health Advisor Prof M Amjad Hossain said reopening of the Trust Adhunik Hospital is a demand of the time as about 1.75 lakh free-
dom fighters are above 52 years of age and often need treatment due to old age.
Prof Amjad said only one cabin is allocated at the Dhaka Medical
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College Hospital (DMCH) for the 1.75 lakh freedom fighters across the country, forcing to refuse many freedom fighters admission due to lack of accommodation.
The misery of the freedom fighters came under light after The Daily Star recently published the story of Arafat Ali Khan, a valiant freedom fighter, who did not receive proper treatment at the DMCH even after a month of his admission.