Specialised hospital demanded for those injured in July uprising

Students injured in the July uprising have demanded that a specialised hospital be built by the government to treat those injured in the movement.

Speaking on behalf of the students at a discussion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity today (14 September), Saif Md Emdad, a student of Government Madrasah-e-Alia, said, “A number of injured have lost their hands, legs or eyes. I have to go to the eye hospital for an ophthalmologist, rush to another hospital for a neurologist, and then go to yet another for leg treatment.”

He went on to say, “It is very difficult to go from one hospital to another like this. Some patients are in much worse conditions than I am. If there were a dedicated hospital for the victims, we would not have to keep running from one place to another.”

Emdad also urged the government to give priority to the injured and family members of the martyrs in the operations of the newly established July Martyrs’ Memorial Foundation.

Students injured in the movement and their parents gave speeches in the event organised under the banner ‘Parents beside Children’.