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Tears fall, whimpers fill air of burn unit

Zyma Islam and Shaheen Mollah
An air of mixed emotions ran at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital where scores of victims of hartal violence have been receiving treatment.
Some faces were etched with grief of seeing their loved ones burnt - helpless. Some expressed bittersweet joy when the victims showed signs of improvement.
Sanchita Paul, the wife of burn victim
Montu Paul, lay listlessly on a pallet in the corridor yesterday.
Montu, who suffered 90 percent burn on his body, was brought to the DMCH on Sunday night after pro-hartal pickets set his human hauler on fire in Laxmibazar.
He was in a critical condition at the intensive care unit and the doctors were doubtful about his recovery.
" I came out... I could not bear to see him
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in such pain. It made me feel so helpless," Sanchita told this correspondent with tears rolling down her cheeks.
"He wants me by his side all the time. I think he is afraid something bad will happen if I am not there," she said.
Following the arson attack in Laxmibazar, Montu had the strength to go to the DMCH all by himself by a rickshaw.
When he was dropped at the DMCH gate, he begged a person there to let him make a phone call from his cell phone.
"Sanchu I am done ..." Montu told his wife over the phone before passing out, said Sanchita.
"Then I had to talk to the person from whose phone he called to get the details," she said.
Another victim, Abul Kashem, 50, who was brought in from Feni with 76 percent burns on Tuesday night, was transferred to the ICU yesterday.
Elis two sons stared at their father helplessly, as he groaned in intolerable pain.
"His shoulders are burnt. He cannot rest them against the mattress," they said.
Abul Kalam Azad, who suffered burns after a bus in Rayerbagh was set ablaze on Tuesday, writhed in pain all night and could not sleep a wink, said his family members.
"We all live in Narayanganj but work in Dhaka. It will be difficult for us to travel to the capital if the hartals continue. We may also suffer the same fate," said victim's son-in-law Mizbah Uddin.
However, things were a bit different
for some.
Eight-year-old Sumi looked positive, as the plaster casts had been removed from her legs.
She made faces as her aunt fed her boiled eggs that seemed not so appetising to the little girl.
Sumi was admitted to the hospital on November 3, when the bus she was travelling by was set on fire by pro-hartal pickets on the Dhaka-Gazipur highway.
Thirteen-year-old Rony, who was courageous enough to smash a glass window to escape from a burning bus, said he hated being strapped to a bed.
He pulled off the bandage on his left arm because he didn't like to be fed by someone else, and wanted to eat by himself, said Rony.
The boy, who suffered 15 percent burn on his body, said he didn't like the food at the hospital and craved for kacchi biriyani.
Shimul, who was rescued from a burning human hauler on Satmasjid Road on Sunday night, was talking a bit more than before, said his family members.
With 15 percent burn on his body, the 10-year-old boy was still in a critical condition.
Another victim, Al-Amin, who suffered burns in an arson attack on a human hauler on November 5, was shifted to the ICU, as his condition deteriorated.
"He could barely breathe and was in severe pain," said his sister, holding vigil beside him.