Journo Bounced around 3 Hospitals, before Dying on the Way to 4th

A journalist suffering from cold, fever, and respiratory distress in Tala Upazila died on the way to his fourth hospital on one day, Wednesday night.

The deceased was Abdul Salam, 36, a prominent journalist, from the village of Baruihati in Satkhira.

Residential Medical Officer of Tala Upazila Health Complex Dr. Rajib Sardar confirmed the death.

On Wednesday, Salam was admitted to the Upazila Health Centre. As his situation deteriorated, he was admitted to Satkhira Sadar Hospital on the same day but was moved to Satkhira Medical College Hospital, where a specialist Corona Unit was opened.

There they ran up against protocol - that the Sadar hospital must have known, and should’ve advised accordingly, or pulled some strings - against which honest citizens almost never win. And so tired and fed up, with Salam’s deteriorating condition made worse, his family gave up on home district Satkhira, and decided to take him to Khulna Medical College & Hospital.   

But they never made it. They had only reached Mirzapore, Dr. Rajib said, when all the fight that still remained in Abdus Salam’s severely weakened body, finally left him.                 

His family members have been directed to self-quarantine, while their samples have already been collected for the coronavirus test.

According to the Civil Surgeon’s Office, a total of 3,574 people have been kept in home quarantine in the district while they received test reports of 189 people who all were tested negative.

In the meanwhile, 564 more patients tested positive for coronavirus over the last 24 hours, taking the overall number of sick persons to 7667, although the death rate in the world is 168, with five more deaths on Thursday.

Source: UNB