Khadiza shifted to CRP from Square Hospitals

Over one and a half months past a brutal attack, Sylhet college student Khadiza Begum Nargis was taken to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Savar yesterday so that she could gain strength in her limbs.

“It (CRP) will begin the process of her rehabilitation into normal life,” Rejaus Sattar, a neurosurgeon of Square Hospitals who has been overseeing her treatment, told The Daily Star.

He expressed hope that Khadiza would be able to walk on her own in a month. “Her left limbs are weak now. Training and therapy should cure it,” he added.

Her father Mashuk Miah said he reached CRP with Khadiza at noon and expressed his gratitude to doctors who treated her. “I hope people will keep wishing her well,” he said.

“We will try to our best for Khadiza's recovery. A team of physiotherapists will jointly work for her treatment,” said Dr Sayeed Uddin Helam, consultant of the neurosurgery department at CRP, at a press briefing.

“We hope Khadiza will be able to do everything within some days,” he was quoted as saying by a correspondent.

On October 3, Khadiza was hacked brutally by Badrul Alam, a fourth-year student at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and also senior assistant secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League unit in Sust.

She was first taken to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital from where she was moved to Square Hospitals in Dhaka.

She was in a coma when she was admitted to the Neuro Intensive Care Unit and put on life support, which was removed recently after her condition improved.

Police on November 8 pressed charges of attempted murder against Badrul.