Many public and private city hospitals became overloaded with hundreds of injured, mostly protesting students with pellet injuries from Jatrabari, Rampura, and Uttara, as members of the Bangladesh Police and the Rapid Action Battalion clashed with the students demanding quota reform in government jobs in various areas of Dhaka on Thursday.聽
Hundreds of injured people, including women, children, journalists and pedestrians, were rushed to hospitals in areas, including Uttara, Savar, Rampura, Chankharpul and airport road.聽聽
Till 8:00pm, Dhaka Medical College Hospital received 185, while Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital on the Mitford road reported to receive 19 injured, Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship government Hospital received at least 250 injured and four bodies, and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital received more than 65 injured.
Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship government Hospital assistant director Mahfuz Ara Behum said, 鈥楾he number till 8:00pm is at least 250, most of them are students with bullet injuries. We could only registered 185 names as we were not prepared for such a number of the injured initially.鈥�
Farazy Hospital Ltd in Banasree received about 400 patients till 4:30pm, said the hospital鈥檚 deputy director Md Rubel Hossain while a staff member, Surovi, of Uttara Crescent Hospital said at about 6:00pm that the hospital received an overwhelming number of patients but could not tell the exact figure due to rush of the injured.
Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital鈥檚 principal professor Sabbir Ahmed Khan said at about 4:30pm that the hospital could only registered names of 62 injured people as it was not prepared for such a rush of patients initially.
He said that the number was more than several hundreds.
Kurmitola General Hospital director Md Saydur Rahman said at around 8:15pm that the hospital was receiving an overwhelming number of patients but refused to disclose the numbers.
The DMCH involved its rapid response team, consisting of 52 members, and established an emergency information centre to manage the situation, said DMCH senior staff nurse Jahidul Islam, a member of the team.
Md Nazem, an emergency doctor of the hospital, told 抖阴精品 at about 3:30pm that most of the patients came with pellet injuries.
Since 11:00am, the hospital corridors were filled with the tears and grief of family members of the injured, and more injured individuals were seen being brought to the hospital.
A student from a private university, who brought another student to the hospital from Uttara, said that the police started firing rubber bullets at the protesters at about 10:00am, when the protesting students were peacefully gathered in the area.
A woman named Saleha rescued a 10-year-old child named Junayed, who was lying on a road at Kazla soaked in blood after being injured by rubber bullets.
鈥業 couldn鈥檛 leave him there. I don鈥檛 know who his parents are,鈥� she said.
Probal was severely injured in the head and eyes by gunshots while he was outside to purchase medicines at Uttara, said his crying sister, Faria Rahman.
She said that members of law enforcement agencies were firing indiscriminately in Uttara, and there were three more injured people in the ambulance with them.
A photographer injured in the Rampura area said that the police fired rubber bullets at journalists despite knowing their identities.
Md Fazlul Haque, an office assistant of the home ministry, was rushed to the hospital in a critical condition at around 11:00am after being injured in the clash on Rampura Bridge.
His nephew said that Fazlul was president of the Sramik League ward 22 at Rampura.
The mother of 24-year-old Riyad, who was severely injured by rubber bullets in Jatrabari while going to Gulistan in the morning, tearfully questioned, 鈥榃hat was the fault of my son? He did not do anything.鈥�
Several students who brought injured peers from Rampura and Uttara reported that many students were injured in these areas and taken to nearby hospitals.
