Woman who gave birth with 30 percent burn injuries dies
Kulsum Begum, who gave birth to a baby boy on March 13 after suffering 30 percent burns on her body, died at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery this morning.
The 25-year-old woman breathed her last around 6:30am while being treated at the hospital, said SM Aiyub Hossain, resident surgeon of the burn institute.
On March 12, when she was eight months pregnant, Kulsum and her three-year-old son Khalid suffered burn injuries after a fire broke out at their flat on the sixth floor of a 10-storey building in Masdair area of Fatullah.
The next day, she gave birth to the baby through a C-section at the burn institute.
As the baby was experiencing some breathing problems, he was sent to the neonatal ward of Dhaka Medical College Hospital that day and has been undergoing treatment at the NICU till date, hospital sources said.
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