<i>Unable to see doctor, old woman kills herself</i>
An elderly woman, financially unable to cure herself from different complications she has been suffering for long, committed suicide in the city yesterday.
Jahura Begum, 55, wife of late Habibur Rahman of Pukur Par slum in Pallabi, allegedly poisoned herself Friday evening.
She was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where she died yesterday.
Shafique Miah, son-in-law of Jahura, said she had been suffering for about seven years from severe headache and eye and other old age complications.
Lately she took different traditional treatments, but the condition remained unimproved. She could not see a good doctor for want of money.
Jahura had been telling her children for a few days that she would kill herself to be free of the unbearable sufferings.
On Friday she managed to collect a bottle of insecticide, which was found lying beside her as neighbours rushed to her house after she took the poison and was groaning.
Jahura used to work as an aya with a non-government organisation, but could not continue the job due to illness.
She lived with her only son Farhad, 22, who worked in a genji (vest) factory. Jahura had three daughters who were married off earlier.
Pallabi police said an unnatural death (UD) case was filed in this connection, and the body was sent to DMCH morgue for autopsy.
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