Shaheen Mollah

Remember Tofa and Tahura? The conjoined twins from Gaibandha, who were successfully separated in a marathon surgery at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on August 1 last year, are 22 months old now.

A record number of patients from across the country were admitted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) in Dhaka during the Eid-ul-fitr holidays.

Like in previous years, healthcare at well-known city hospitals during Eid vacation would depend mostly on a handful of doctors and nurses.

Street vendors in the capital have to pay much more as extortion ahead of Eid-ul Fitr, further impacting their day-to-day income.

Nusrat Jahan Moon has seen her father being lowered into the depths of earth from where nobody has ever come back, but her innocent little mind cannot fathom or grasp the fact that she will never see her father again.

Some members of his family call him “crazy”. Others think he is trailblazer. Sri Tapan, the man in question, however, feels he is just fulfilling his long-term wishes.

She was their hopes and aspirations for the future. They had a strong belief that she would change the lot of the poor family someday.

“I want to go home,” was the last request made by college student Rajib Hossain, when he last spoke to his uncle, Jahidul Islam, around 9:30pm on Monday.

In tears and stunned silence, Tanzid Sultan Mahi walks out of the graveyard without speaking to anyone. At just the age of 14, his life has been thrown into depths of unfathomable darkness. He has realised, nothing in his life will ever be the same again.

She had a dream to be a lawyer someday. With that in mind, she had been trying hard to chase the dream. But the dream seems to go unfulfilled now as the HSC candidate lost her study materials in a devastating fire at Elias Mollah Slum in the capital's Mirpur early Monday.

She was to finish her studies in a few months and be the one looked up to by her poor family. But her dreams were dealt a big blow yesterday.

The Taj Manzil of Kalyanpur in Dhaka saw a drastic change in last one and a half years after nine suspected militants, who had holed up there under the guise of tenants, were killed in police operation codenamed “Storm 26” on July 26, 2016.

With an aim to detect cancer at its primary stage, the Nuclear Medicine Institute (NMI) is going to install a PET/CT scanner from early January next year.

Sekandar Ali, a morgue attendant, who worked on more than 80,000 bodies in his 35 years in the profession at Dhaka Medical College, also nurtured a rather wholesome hobby.

Worried, nine-year-old Ismail spends most of his day sitting on a bed at the neurosurgery department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Relatives of a number of army officers killed during the Pilkhana BDR carnage yesterday expressed satisfaction over the High Court judgment.

For the first time in five years, Rezia can walk. The 40-year-old woman had been struggling with her severely swollen right leg that weighed almost 60kg for years. She did not think that she would walk again.

Anyone walking down the street in front of the main entrance to the DMCH emergency unit would encounter an awful sight: used syringes, bandages, dressings, saline bags and many other medical waste littering the pavement.

The police probe into the 2015 attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the city's Karwan Bazar has failed to identify any of the attackers though photographs of many of them were published in the media. The BNP chief's convoy came under attack during a campaign for city corporation election in April. Two and a half years later, her motorcade was attacked twice within only four days this week in Feni.

If you are poor and in jail for some reason and you happen to be seriously ill, you are probably out of luck. But if you are a rich inmate or have political clout, you do not even need to be sick to have extended holidays at the country's leading government hospitals.