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Student-Mass Movement: Riad struggling to return to normal life

Published : Sunday, 24 November, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 165
Muhammad Riad Ali Khandaker, 20, who sustained bullet-wounds during the anti-discrimination student movement, is struggling to return to normal life.  

"I along with all my family members are still in the grip of deep anxieties about getting back to my normal life as my bullet injuries are very critical," said Riad.

The bullet-hit student is in anxiety and frustration as he is undergoing treatment after being a victim of anti-discrimination student movement turning to mass-uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina-led government.

He was an active participant in the anti-quota student movement that gradually was getting momentum to end the 16 years rule of fascist Sheikh Hasina.    

Riad, a student of Godagari Model School and College in Rajshahi District, is now undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka, and its doctors are trying to reactivate his mobility power through need-based treatment and assistive devices.

He said that a bullet shot by police pierced his left thigh bone during the anti-discrimination student movement at Godagari crossing in Rajshahi at around 11:30 am on August 5.

Doctors at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) removed the bullet through drilling the bone on August 15 and the hospital authority expressed inability to further treatment and referred him to Dhaka on August 24 as his condition of mobility could not be improved.

Dr Alamgir Hossain, head of the Department of Orthopedics at the RMCH, said that the bullet-wounds have caused multiple fractures of thigh bones, damaging nerves and tendons causing dysfunction of knee and foot.

Riad underwent another surgical operation at the CMH in Dhaka on September 1 and was released on September 15 suggesting him for a follow-up check-up after one month.

The second among four brothers and three sisters in the family, hails from Shimantapur Village under Godagari Upazila of Rajshahi District, he may need to undergo a complicated surgical operation related to nerve and tendon reactivation to get back his mobility power.

On behalf of the government, Khandaker Muhammad Obaidullah, 65, father of Riad, was given financial support worth around Tk 72,000.

Obaidullah, who runs his family expenses through operating a road-side food shop in front of Godagari Pourashava Office, said that around 10 to 12 students including his son Riad were injured during the anti-discrimination student movement on the day.

He further said that the police were very much aggressive to resist the students-people movement at any cost. 

They resorted to deadly attacks on the huge rally of students and people at Godagari crossing area injuring many people on August 5.

He, however, is feeling proud of his son calling him as valiant and hero for his active participation in the student-mass people movement.  

"Now I want full recovery of my son from his bullet injuries and return normal life," Muhammad Obaidullah added.    —BSS



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