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More than 10 critically injured people are still undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital as they have been hit by bullets in violence during the student movement for reforming quotas in the government jobs.

With bullet injuries, they have been admitted to the DMCH, which has already handed over at least 83 bodies while many of the injured have been released after first aids during the clashes between the protesters and law enforcement agencies, mainly from July 18 to July 21.


Among the critically injured, around seven people were under treatment at the intensive care unit and five at the high dependency care unit of the hospital, said a DMCH official on Thursday.

He also said that all the injured came to the hospital with bullet injury in head, chest and leg.

To know about the patients and their conditions, a ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· staff correspondent went to talk to the doctors on duty at the HDU and the ICU, but an Ansar member named Ujjal Hossen did not allow the correspondent to go to them.

In this regard, he said that  the doctors would not talk to journalist.

Mahbub, a street vendor who has a four-year child, was admitted to the hospital after he sustained bullet injury in his chest at Shanir Akhra in the capital.

Mahbub’s wife, Nila, said that they lived in a rented house at Shanir Akhra, mention that he sustained a bullet in his chest while returning from a shop in the area on July 21.

Mahbub’s brother Maruf said that he was admitted to the hospital on the day and after an operation on the same day, he was shifted to the ICU on Tuesday.

He also mentioned that around Tk 20,000 had already been spent for the treatment purpose.

On July 18, another critically injured patient, Kaiyum Hossain, an online product seller, sustained pellets in his forehead and eyes at Shanir Akhra, who was undergoing treatment at the hospital’s ICU from the day, said his elder brother Saddam Hossain.

While waiting for his brother in front of the ICU, Saddam lamented that he had not yet regained consciousness, mentioning, ‘I have nothing to say but to wish that all the children should return to their mothers.’

According to the DMCH official, more than 1,600 injured people relating to quota reformation movement violence have come to the hospital and around 110 people are still undergoing treatment at its several wards.

Among the patients, two died while undergoing on Thursday.

The deceased, who sustained bullet injury, were Jakir Hossain, 29, and Zaman, 17, taking the death toll to at least 84.

According to the DMCH mortuary assistant, Babul, they have handed over 70 dead bodies to the relatives of the deceased till Monday.

Moreover, eight bodies handed over to Anjuman Mufidul Islam for burial and two bodies to the relatives of deceased on Wednesday, and three bodies to the relatives of deceased on Thursday.

He, however, could not confirm how many dead bodies were handed over from DMCH mortuary on Tuesday.