Elevator accident: Patient’s relative dies at Gazipur’s Tajuddin hospital

A tragic incident happened final night time (1 October) at spherical 11:30pm at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Scientific School Scientific institution in Gazipur where a affected person’s relative died in an elevator accident.

In Would possibly possibly presumably possibly this twelve months, a affected person died after falling from an elevator at the health heart.

The deceased has been is named Md Jahidul Islam, 40, a resident of Cumilla’s Daudkandi. He had been attending to his in uncomfortable health baby admitted within the newborn’s ward on the tenth floor of the health heart.

The incident introduced about outrage amongst the health heart’s sufferers and their households, with members of the family of the deceased and completely different sufferers complaining that the health heart lacks faithful administration.

They alleged that the health heart has elevator operators, but they’re seldom accessible. The members of the family furthermore claimed no one was once penalised for the outdated accident fascinating the elevators.

Relations and eyewitnesses at the health heart said Jahidul crucial to fling downstairs from the newborn’s ward on the tenth floor. So he approached the elevator and pressed the resolution button. The elevator doors opened immediately.

He stepped into the elevator, but as the elevator had no longer pulled up, he fell down from the tenth floor. He was once critically injured and rushed to the emergency department where the on-accountability doctor declared him useless.

“The elevator was once frightful for plenty of days, but there was once no warning signal or elevator operator most up-to-date,” said an attendant named Akash, who was once on the mattress next to Jahidul’s son at the newborn’s ward.

Ayub Hossain, a member of the Ansar on accountability at the health heart, said, “We came right here after listening to the guidelines. He [Jahidul] was once found in a bloody assert on the ground floor of the elevator.

“Everyone must personal been warned referring to the elevator’s disorders beforehand,” Ayub added.

Dr Manjur Morshed, a health care provider within the emergency department of the health heart, said, “We heard that someone had fallen within the elevator. Later, the body was once then sent to the morgue.”

Contacted, Dr Amirul Islam, the health heart’s director, said, “A four-member investigation committee has been fashioned after the incident.”

The committee, chaired by the government engineer (civil) of the Public Works Department, contains representatives from the fire service, the government engineer (electrical) of the Public Works Department, and the assistant director of the health heart, he added.

“The committee has been asked to submit a file by as of late [2 October]. Motion will likely be taken if negligence is found per the file,” he added.

On 3 Would possibly possibly presumably possibly this twelve months, a affected person named Momtaz Begum died after falling from the 12th floor.

An investigation committee was once furthermore fashioned for that incident, however the health heart authorities later did now not personal shut any lumber against anybody, and the investigation file was once no longer printed.