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DMCH Burn Unit

It's hard to cope with patients

Staff Correspondent
Each hartal and blockade over the last month brought with it more arson victims at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The latest of them were 19 people, who were burnt on Thursday evening after a bus was set alight by pickets at Shahbagh. Two of the victims succumbed to their injuries on Friday.
Overwhelmed by the influx of patients to the hospital, the DMCH yesterday formed an 11-member medical board at the burn unit to deal with the workload.
The board, headed by DMCH Director Dr Deen Mohammad, consisted of specialists from ophthalmology, medicine, anaesthesia, surgery, burn and blood transfusion departments, among others, veteran burn expert Dr Samanto Lal Sen told The Daily Star.
When the 19 arson victims arrived at the hospital on
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Tuesday, doctors were forced to have two patients in one bed, until more could be arranged.
The 100-bed burn unit now accommodates over 350 patients, said hospital sources.
"However, we'll handle the extra pressure of patients. We'll provide treatment to the hartal victims," said Partha Shankar Pal, resident surgeon at the burn unit.
A specialised emergency team has already been on standby, he added.
He said the condition of three victims of the bus torching incident was critical. The three, Jahangir, Nurunnabi, and Babu, were transferred to the ICU.
BURDENED WITH PATIENTS
All the beds of the Intensive Care Unit and the two High Dependency Unit (HDU) wards at the burn unit are occupied now.
At least two patients were transferred from the male ward of the HDU to make room for the critical patients from the bus torching incident.
Human hauler driver Al Amin, with 30 percent burn injuries from an arson attack on his vehicle on November 6, was shifted from the HDU to a makeshift ward in the balcony of the fourth floor.
The extra pressure on the HDU was the reason for moving the patient, said Dr Sen. "However, he [Al Amin| was improving, making us hopeful of his condition."
Ten-year-old Shimul, in from an arson attack on a human hauler on November 11, was also transferred from the HDU.
Our Madaripur correspondent reports: Thousands of people yesterday joined the funeral of the two cousins, Robin and Nahid, at Kutubpur of Shibchar upazila. The two had succumbed to their burn injuries on Friday.
A gloom descended in the area when the victims' family members and loved ones mourned their loss. People expressed deep resentment at the state of politics in the country.