If only time was on their side
Sixty-two-year-old Anwar Hossain, a resident of Old Dhaka's Hazaribagh, had tested positive for Covid-19 four days back. He was receiving treatment at home.
Yesterday morning, when he was complaining of severe breathing issues, his daughter Jhuma Akter decided to take him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
She, along with her father, started for DMCH in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw. Jhuma was holding her father all the way to DMCH.
Upon reaching the hospital around 12:00pm, she carried Anwar down from the three-wheeler with the help of people in front of the hospital and took him to the emergency department.
But apparently it was too late.
Doctors on duty declared Anwar "brought dead", our photojournalist Anisur Rahman reported from DMCH.
Around 2:00pm, Jhuma started for home with her father's body in an ambulance.
Anwar had contracted Covid-19 for the second time, Jhuma said.
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