Naogaon Correspondent: Habibur Rahman,
Badalgachhi Upazila of Naogaon Senior journalist and former president of Badalgachi Press Club Md. Abu Said (47) reportedly died of a heart attack due to lack of sufficient oxygen despite having oxygen cylinders at the 50-bed health complex in Badalgachi.
The complete incident was narrated to the journalists by Md. Sijan Siddiqui, son of the late Abu Said, and a young man named Mehedi Hasan, a resident of Dangisara in Badalgachhi Upazila. Sijan Siddiqui, son of the late Abu Said, said, the incident happened on December 18. I could not tell you anything because I was in grief. He said, my father suddenly fell ill at 3:30 pm while riding a motorcycle and started sweating and his hands and feet started to shake. My mother and elder brother were not at home that day.
I somehow took my father to the hospital with the help of two passers-by. One of them was Mehdi Hasan and he was there almost from the beginning to the end. After taking my father to the hospital, they put an oxygen tube in my father's nose and asked me to bring three injections. I brought them. My father was still talking. As I was panicking and scared, the hospital staff was a man named Mamun, a woman named Smriti and two nurses. None of them were doctors. They said that when I went to get the injection, they put a medicine under my father's tongue. Then, while I was present, they opened some medicines and gave them to me and told my father to chew them. I then asked if all the medicines were okay. After a while, they replied, 'Yes, they are okay'.
Then my father told the woman named Smriti who was in charge, "Madam, my father died in this hospital due to the wrong medicine. I was already aware of that, so I asked them. Based on their words and seeing that my father's condition was getting worse, medicine was given later. Then my father said that his mouth was getting dry. Then the man named Mamun gave my father water and told him to recite prayers. Then they said that it won't happen here anymore, we have to take him to Naogaon. I then called a familiar Pazhvet microbus and took him to the hospital. The people in charge at the hospital said that it wouldn't be right to take him in this vehicle. There is no oxygen cylinder here. My father was talking a little bit at that time. My father, I and the people present there requested many times to give me the oxygen from the emergency department. But they said that it cannot be connected directly. That cannot be given. Then it was not possible to take him in the vehicle I called. Then they called the hospital ambulance and told me that there was an oxygen cylinder connected there.
Then the ambulance driver said he would come quickly but took an hour and a half. My father's condition was very bad. He had stopped talking. Then when the ambulance arrived at the hospital, the oxygen pipe was removed from his nose, and my father started breathing heavily. At that time, a man named Mamun ran and took the oxygen cylinder from the emergency department and put it in the ambulance. Then, when he was taken to Naogaon Medical College Hospital, he was declared dead. Sijan Siddiqui also said, if the oxygen cylinder had been given to us in time at the Badalgachhi Health Complex, it would have been possible to take my father to Naogaon in the car I called earlier and save him.
Mehdi Hasan, who was present at that time, agreed with every word of Sijan Siddiqui. The sub-district residents told the reporters that journalist Saeed has been in the journalism profession for twenty-five years and Badalgachhi has seen a lot of development due to his writings. If such a respected, philanthropic, honest person like him dies due to lack of proper treatment, then what will happen to us. In this regard, Badalgachhi Upazila Health Complex Officer Shayla Taslima said, "I am in RMM in Rajshahi, you are in Badalgachi." He contacted the health complex, but despite repeated calls to Badalgachhi Health Complex, no one was available to provide a statement.
Naogaon Correspondent:-
Md. Habibur Rahman
