Maksuda’s body to be brought back next week
The body of Maksuda Begum, who died at a hospital in Beirut of Lebanon Monday morning, will be brought back next week, the Bangladesh ambassador in Beirut said today.
On completion of the due procedures, the body of the 35-year-old migrant woman will be flown back, Abdul Motaleb Sarker told The Daily Star in the morning.
Maksuda Begum, a divorcee for almost 20 years, had struggled to survive by fighting against her fate.
Some of her fellow Bangladeshi migrants in Lebanon alleged that she died for lack of timely treatment and negligence of the Bangladesh embassy in Beirut, which the embassy officials denied.
In the last five months before her death, Maksuda was so sick that she could not move anywhere. “She had two tumors in her stomach. She was also suffering from kidney complications for several months,” Masud Rana, a fellow migrant, told The Daily Star over the phone from Lebanon on Monday.
In 2012, Maksuda left the country and joined a Lebanese family in Beirut as a domestic help. She worked there for two years.
But her miseries started when the family cancelled her contract and left her helpless. After the cancellation, she became undocumented in the Middle Eastern country.
While in Bangladesh, she had to manage her livelihood by working at garment factories in Dhaka. Maksuda had no one except her two brothers at Sadar upazila in Shariatpur.
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