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People left to suffer, as always

Star Report
Mohammad Mamun, a poor labourer from Narayanganj, was to see a doctor in Dhaka on Monday to know why he was feeling a sharp pain in his plastered left hand fractured 10 days back. But he could not find any transport to travel to the capital.
Though the pain kept getting worse, he decided to wait for a day. But when the opposition enforced hartal yesterday for the third consecutive day, he got extremely frustrated.
He tried in vain to get a public transport to Dhaka during the shutdown. As the pain became unbearable, Mamun
borrowed money and hired an city
auto-rickshaw forTk600 to go to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
By the time he reached the DMCH, the hospital's outdoor section had already been closed.
Mamun went to the emergency section after 2:00pm. The doctors there said they were unable to help him as he was a patient of the outdoor section.
Failing to get treatment, he left for home after three hours.
Like Mamun, many had to endure pain and sufferings because of the dawn-to-dusk shutdowns enforced by the main opposition BNP to protest the disappearance of party leader IliasAH.
Several hundred airline passengers hurried to Shahjalal International Airport early in the morning, hours before their scheduled flights, to avoid street violence duringhartalhours.
"My flight to Malaysia is at 4:00pm today [Tuesday]. But I came to the airport at 5:30am. I have to wait here for more than 10 hours," said Jahangir Alam from Kishoreganj.
The passengers who returned from abroad also struggled to find transport to reach their destinations.
Khorshed Alam, who returned from South Korea after eight years, said he failed to find any transport to go to Rajshahi. “I along with my relatives will stay in a hotel in Dhaka until hartal ends."
Ilias Hossain, a college student, frantically searched for a transport to take his
father Abbas Hossain to the DMCH from Mazar Road in Mirpur after he complained of severe chest pain.
But Ilias failed to find any transport for half-an-hour. Finally, he and his father boarded a public bus to go to the hospital. When the vehicle was crossing Agargaon, it came under attack from pickets. They got panicked and stepped out of the vehicle.
He then took his father to the hospital by an autorickshaw.
Hundreds of commuters were seen waiting for hours at bus stops in the capital yesterday.
State-run BRTC and some private companies operated buses but most of their counters remained closed.
"I have been waiting here for two hours. The transport operators are saying no bus will run from here," said Rajib Ahmed, a university student, one of the passengers who waited for buses for hours to travel out of the capital.
Abul Kalam, a transport leader, said they stopped operating buses since Sunday.
He said they tried to run buses at night, but pickets set fire to two buses forcing them to suspend operation.
Failing to get any bus, many passengers flocked to Kamalapur railway station. But reaching there was not easy.
Abul Hasnat, who was to leave Dhaka for Rajshahi, said pickets chased his autorickshaw on the way to the railway station.