Khadiza able to call family members
For the last few days, college girl Khadiza had been able to recognise and call her family members by their names, her father Mashuk Miah said yesterday.
“Sometimes she would recognise me or her uncle and call us by names in a faint voice. On occasions, she would just stare blankly at people,” he told The Daily Star.
The 23-year-old has been undergoing treatment at Square Hospital. Her uncle Abdul Baset, quoting doctors, said she would often talk to herself at night.
A student of Sylhet Government Women's College, Khadiza Begum Nargis was brutally hacked by Badrul Alam, a Chhatra League leader of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, with a machete on the campus of MC College on October 3. She went there to sit an examination.
Mashuk, an expatriate in Saudi Arabia, returned home three days later. Her brother Shahin Ahmed, who studies medicine in China, also arrived in Dhaka on the same day.
The victim's father said doctors were hoping to transfer Khadiza to a cabin within next couple of days.
She now can slightly move her left leg in response to pain and is able to take food by mouth. Previously, she was fed by a tube.
The attack on Khadiza left her in coma. As she started regaining consciousness, physicians noticed that she could not move her left limbs.
Doctors operated on her right hand on October 17 and said there were injuries on her left hand which needed surgeries, but they would wait till her overall condition improved further.
Following the attack, Badrul was caught and handed over to police by locals. He confessed to a Sylhet magistrate of trying to kill her after she refused to be in a relationship with him.
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