Staring at her 11-month-old son lying dead on a gurney, Bristy wails at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital as her sister tries to comfort her in vain yesterday. Siam died after showing flu-like symptoms for the previous three days. His father Selim said they took him to a hospital in Dhaka’s Matuail on Sunday night after the child developed breathing problems in the evening. Turned away by doctors there, the family, which lives in Narayanganj, brought him to the DMCH burn unit, which has recently been converted into a Covid-19 treatment facility, around 1:00am yesterday. He died around 6:00am, without receiving any treatment, claimed his family. The body lied on this gurney till 2:00pm when this photographer visited the place.

Photo: Anisur Rahman