OUR CORRESPONDENT, Tangail

A free day-long medical camp was held at Bhani Katra Jharka Bazar in Ghatail upazila of Tangail on the occasion of the 30th birth anniversary of Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain yesterday.

According to the Faraaz Hossain Foundation, the organiser of the camp, around 350 patients received free treatment and medicines through their initiative.

Specialist doctors provided free treatment in medicine, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, ENT, dentistry, heart disease, diabetes, chest diseases, and children’s diseases and distributed medicines, the organiser added.

Sheikh Md Rabiul Islam, senior regional sales manager of Eskayef Pharmaceuticals, and other officials were present at the medical camp.

Twenty-year-old Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain sacrificed his life for his friends Abinta Kabir and Tarishi Jain during the Holey Artisan Bakery attack on July 1, 2016, in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed.

He was the grandson of Transcom Group Founder Chairman Latifur Rahman and Shahnaz Rahman, and son of Transcom Group CEO Simeen Rahman and Muhammad Waqar.