Death of a teacher
Reading the first few lines of this letter will probably get you thinking that this is one of those same old boring write-ups trying to get a point out to the world, blah, blah, blah.. I assure you this is nothing like that. It takes a lot of nerves to sit down right now and write. Let me tell you why. I just came back home from the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Not a place anyone would like to go to every day, but unfortunately some of us are unlucky to end up there somehow.
Since you already heard the word hospital you can guess this is not going to be pleasant. A couple of hours ago one of our respected teachers passed away. Everyone must go when their time comes, I'm not arguing about that. But how does it feel if that person is a young man in his early thirties? To make things worse, e had no physical complications. The reason why he has passed away today is because he was murdered. Yes!! I repeat HE WAS MURDERED. A simple man living his day to day life was returning home, but he was unlucky to become one of the victims of our well known muggers.
Do you know how people in distress are treated in Bangladesh? Let me help you if you don't. Mr. Dewan Rahat Karim was a lecturer of North South University. He used to teach us accounting and management. He was a fun loving person. He had Iftar with our honorable Vice Chancellor and then took class from 7 till 8:20 pm. After the classes he doesn't roam about but rather goes straight back home. A couple of hours went by and his family members started to worry. His father-in-law went out to search for him. Tragedy struck when he found him at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The police said they found him near the army stadium, but there was no reason for him to go in that direction, he lived in Dhanmondi. When his relatives arrived at DMCH, they found him locked in a room with no doctors or even nurses to aid him. His brothers cried for help. They looked everywhere for a doctor but no one came. The doctors have already announced him dead.
His students ran and got oxygen for him. Some of them even said they could feel a pulse, but who cares? They tried to take him out to another hospital, they weren't allowed. Apparently it's the law? Funny, isn't it? We have a law to take a person all the way from Uttara to DMC regardless of whether that person could have survived if he received treatment a few minutes earlier.
Two hours went by and a doctor finally came. But its no use he's already long gone. Are these people actually doctors? Who gave them their degree? If you haven't stopped reading yet I suggest you spend just 5 minutes of your life and read the rest of it. This is a humble appeal to everyone out there - men, women, children, it doesn't matter. Help us. Help us change the situation of this country.
What would you want to do if your brother, God forbid, passed away. Wouldn't you want to wash his body and make all preparations for his burial? Poor Mr. Dewan's family isn't that lucky tonight. They have to wait till the morning when someone performs an autopsy. Why cant they just do that now? Well there's no one to do it. Ridiculous isn't it? Why'd you keep the hospital then? There's no doctor to attend the patients, there is no one to perform an autopsy, there isn't someone to get a freaking oxygen cylinder!!
As we stood there weeping, a police van came along. They brought three men in handcuffs. One screaming at the top of his lungs in pain. They were brought here for medical treatment. Now here's the interesting part. Let me take you through the procedures. The men stood there as the police officers shook hands with numerous people. Then they went and filled up some register books and then everyone just stood there. Twenty minutes already gone by. No one came to treat the men. Guess it was too much to ask for, or they're criminals, why should they be treated?
As for the people who did this to our beloved sir, I hope you're literate enough to read this. How could you be so cruel? How could you do something so inhuman? You want the cell phone? Take it. You want the wallet? Take it. Take everything, but why do you have to kill someone for it. Doesn't anyone ever think about the consequences? What will happen to his wife? They were married for just a couple of years. What will happen to his father? His mother? Will all her screams and tears bring her loved one back?
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