Rohingya child dies of burns
A 35-day-old Rohingya infant died of his burns at Chittagong Medical College Hospital early yesterday, after a 10 days' battle for life.
The victim, Saiful Arman, son of Sayed Nur from Buchidong in Maungdaw of Myanmar's Rakhine, suffered the burns as Burmese security forces torched their house during a crackdown on their village.
Mrinal Kanti Das, head of Burn and Plastic Surgery unit of CMCH, said the infant, with 10 percent burns on his body, was taken to the hospital 10 days after the incident.
“Because of the delay, he was affected by septicemia, an infection resulting from burns, and failed to recover from it,” he told The Daily Star.
The body was handed over to Anjuman Mufidul Islam, a charity organisation, for burial, said CMCH Police Outpost's Assistant Sub-inspector Alauddin Talukdar.
With the infant, three Rohingyas have died so far at the CMCH since August 25 when they started coming to the hospital, he added.
In all, 135 Rohingyas have been admitted to the hospital since then. Of them, 55 have been discharged and sent to Teknaf Rohingya camps and the rest 80 are still being treated there, according to police and hospital sources.
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