The government will take all necessary steps to ensure medical treatment for those injured in a recent road accident at Lohagara upazila in Chattogram, said Faruk E Azam, the adviser to the liberation war affairs and disaster management ministries.
鈥楨verything will be done on doctor鈥檚 recommendations and if advanced treatment is required, that will be arranged following medical advice,鈥� he told journalists while visiting the injured at Chattogram Medical College Hospital on Thursday afternoon.
He further said that if more sophisticated treatment is needed abroad they would take the initiative from the government鈥檚 side.
鈥榃e will do everything necessary as advised by the doctors,鈥� he said, expressing his shock at the deaths in the Lohagara accidents.
Chattogram City Corporation mayor Shahadat Hossain was also present during the visit.
CMCH director Brigadier General Taslim Uddin and deputy director Mohammad Elias Chowdhury briefed the adviser and the mayor about the ongoing treatment of the injured.聽
At least 10 people including three of a family were killed and two others injured as a bus collided with two microbuses on the Chattogram-Cox鈥檚 Bazar highway at Chunti Jangalia point under Lohagara upazila in Chattogram on Wednesday.
At the same place a total of 15 people were killed and 20 were injured in three accidents in three consecutive days since the Eid-ul-Fitr day on March 31.
Among the deceased in the Wednesday鈥檚 accident, Tanifa Yeasmin was an assistant spokesperson for the Students Against Discrimination鈥檚 Mirpur Model Thana, said Umama Fatema, spokesperson for the Students Against Discrimination, in a Facebook post.
In her post, Umama also said that Tanifa worked with honesty, integrity and dedication at every stage of the movement and her untimely passing was an irreparable loss to the movement.
Among Wednesday鈥檚 victims, six-year-old Aradhya Biswas, daughter of deceased couple Dilip Biswas and Sadhana Mondal, is currently undergoing treatment in CMCH鈥檚 Ward 28.
Her cousin, Durjoy Mondal, is also receiving medical treatment at the same hospital.
Prema, daughter of deceased couple Rafiqul Islam and Lutfun Nahar Sumi, meanwhile, is in the Intensive Care Unit at the same hospital.聽聽
The deceased in the accident are Dilip Biswas, 43, his wife Sadhana Mondal, 37, his father-in-law Ashish Mondal, 50, from Shailkupa, Jhenaidah; Rafiqul Islam Shamim, 46, his wife Lutfun Nahar Sumi, 35, their elder daughter Anisa, 16, younger daughter Liana, 8, niece Tanifa Ahmed, 16, uncle Muktar Hossain, 60, from Mirpur, Dhaka, and microbus driver Yusuf Ali, 55.
Ashish Mondal and Anisa died later while undergoing treatment at the CMCH.聽
Dohazari highway police officer-in-charge Shubho Ranjan Chakma said that no case was filed in this regard yet.
The bodies were handed over to their families, he added.