City Univ resident student dies from asthma attack

A residential female student of City University in Khagan of Savar died on Sunday night allegedly due to negligence of the university authorities.

The victim was Fahmida Jahan Nishi, a student of English department. Students said Fahmida felt sick on Sunday afternoon and informed the university authorities.

Dr Helal Uddin, the university residential doctor, prescribed her some medicine. However, her condition worsened and the students informed the authorities again. But, the university authorities paid no heed, they claimed.

"The doctor said Nishi was pretending," alleged Fahmida's friend, a female student.

However, when Fahmida was taken to Enam Medical College Hospital three hours later around 8:00pm the doctors there declared her dead.

Dr Sohel Rana, emergency duty doctor of the hospital, said the patient was brought dead. She seemed to have died from an asthma attack, he said, adding that the patient could have been saved if she was brought earlier.

Denying the allegation of negligence, Humayun Kabir, state officer of the university, said Fahmida had been suffering from asthma for long and this was not the first time she had such an attack. He said they postponed the semester finals till next Saturday.  Fahmida's body was handed over to her family without a post-mortem.