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Abortion at wrong hands ends her life

Alpha Arzu
A woman died yesterday after undergoing an 'operation' for menstrual regulations (MR) for abortion under a family planning visitor at the Central Police Hospital in Rajarbagh in the capital.
The victim was identified as Zakia Begum, 35, sister of a constable, who works as a driver with the police department.
Mother of two children, Zakia was expecting for four months when she went to the hospital for counselling about her intended abortion last week.
As she was talking to the enquiry desk, Baby, the family planning visitor, approached her posing as a doctor and took her to a doctor's room, said family members and hospital sources.
Speaking anonymously, an employee said, Baby first
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operated' on Zakia on Tuesday and charged her Tk 3,500. She asked Zakia to come for a second 'operation' arguing that the child was already mature enough.
"As Zakia showed up today (yesterday] morning, Baby took her to the family planning visitor's room for the second 'surgery'," added the employee who witnessed everything.
As Zakia was bleeding profusely after the operation' Baby rushed to Hospital Superintendent Alauddin Al Azad, with whom she allegedly has a very close relation, and informed him the incident, the witness said.
Meanwhile, some hospital staffs entered the room and checked her pulse but found none.
The hospital super immediately called a meeting with his close officials and asked them to spread the death news in a contrasting manner, the witness added.
Within half an hour, all the hospital staffs learned that a patient died of either cardiac arrest or brain haemorrhage.
Alauddin meanwhile called in Zakia's family members and instructed them to receive the body immediately. "The body has to be washed after death, otherwise God will not forgive her sin," Zakia's sister-
in-law quoted Alauddin as saying.
The hospital super refused to talk to The Daily Star and barred the newspaper's photojournalist from entering the hospital compound.
Contacted, Baby said she did not know anything about the incident and asked this correspondent to talk to Alauddin for any query.
The hospital authorities did not issue a death certificate for the victim. Family sources say they were asked to take the certificate after her burial in Barguna, her home district.
"We realised the super was quite busy all day to cover up the incident and requested us to issue a manipulated death certificate. But none of us agreed to do that," said a doctor on the understanding of anonymity.
As the victim was four months pregnant, she was not supposed to undergo the abortion surgery, said Prof AB Bhuiyan of Obstetric and Gynaecological Society of Bangladesh.