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Daughter's dream burnt at Nimtoli

She came to Dhaka for a job to help her father, ended up in need of help for herself

Shaheen Mollah with Rakib Ahammed
She wants to get a second chance at life so that she can help her father, a poor farmer, to run their family. Twenty one-year-old Babita Barman, a victim of Nimtoli inferno expressed her wish as she lay on a bed at the burnt unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Babita, who came to the capital to get a job, is now battling her injuries at the intensive care unit. The flames of the devastating Nimtoli blaze had burnt 35 percent of her body. She was wearing an oxygen mask and had a blanket wrapped around her frail body at DMCH.
Doctors said her condition was critical and might deteriorate further as she cannot ingest adequate food.
“I came to Dhaka in search of a job as running our family has become difficult for my father who is a poor farmer,” she said.
She arrived at the house of her maternal uncle, Badal Barman, a physician, last year after completing her Higher Secondary School
examinations from Kamalakanda Degree College in Netrakona. She secured grade B in the examinations from the Humanities group.
On the fateful night of June 3, the blaze burned her upper torso and limbs when she was trying to make an escape with her two and half year old cousin from her uncle's flat on the ground floor of a two-story building. The devastating blaze engulfed the building along with five others buildings that killed 121.
She was rushed to the burn unit of DMCH and later shifted to the intensive care unit after a week as her condition worsened.
Babita's uncle, his wife, daughter and domestic help of the residence also received burn injuries by the flames and they are being treated at the city's Combined Military Hospital.
“My daughter wanted to be a college teacher,” said her mother Kalpana Barman at the hospital, adding, “But, she had to stop her education and leave for Dhaka to help run our family,” However, despite repeated attempts, she failed to get a job though she completed a course on computer applications.
Eldest among three, Babita continued her school and college education by doing private tuition to reduce pressure on his father Shukhamoy Barman. She has two brothers studying in class
Project Director of the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of DMCH, Samanta Lal Sen told The Daily Star that even after undergoing 22 days' of treatment, her condition is still critical. “She cannot ingest food essential for her which may worsen her condition,” he added.