Youth injured in protest remains comatose after a month

“My son dreamed of going in a distant places country and supporting our household. However that dream could never come beautiful now,” said farmer Altaf Hossain.

Altaf’s eldest son, 21-yr-frail Saiful Islam Arif, became injured staunch through an anti-discrimination student teach in Chattogram’s Contemporary Market dwelling on 4 August.

Despite being within the ICU of Chattogram Medical College Clinic for over a month, he remains unconscious.

Brigadier Licensed Taslim Uddin, director of Chattogram Medical College Clinic, said that Arif sustained a excessive head injury and is in a coma.

On Sunday, he became transferred to the Mixed Military Clinic (CMH) in Dhaka.

The sanatorium administration and the Anti-discrimination College students Circulation are caring for his clinical charges, then yet again, his comatose dispute has devastated his household.

“I had arranged for a work visa for Qatar for my son for Tk4 lakh. I even borrowed Tk50,000 to pay in near. He became supposed to work as a security guard there. The visa arrived per week after the accident, nonetheless now he is within the sanatorium, unconscious, combating for his life,” Altaf urged TBS.

Arif, who had impartial no longer too long ago moved to Chattogram city, became working at his uncle’s automobile shop in Kadamtali.

“He had come to work at my shop to learn and assign money this capability that of he wanted to lunge in a distant places country. He joined the teach with out informing anybody. A month has handed, nonetheless he has no longer regained consciousness. His household is devastated,” Sohel, Arif’s uncle, urged TBS.

Arif had joined the anti-discrimination student motion because the teach march handed through Kadamtali. Awami League activists and its affiliated organisations attacked the protesting college students in Contemporary Market, firing shots and hurling brickbats, according to witnesses.

Arif became severely injured after being struck on the pinnacle with a brickbat and trampled. Locals rescued him and took him to Chattogram Medical College Clinic, the build he became admitted to the ICU.

Sohel said they had been unable to contact Arif since the afternoon of that day. Fearing something had took dwelling staunch through the clashes, they searched several police stations forward of finding Saiful at Chattogram Medical College Clinic.

Besides to Arif being within the sanatorium, his household will almost definitely be facing one more excessive disaster as their dwelling became destroyed within the most contemporary flood. Arif’s father Altaf, a dinky-scale sharecropper, now waits helplessly hoping for his son’s recovery.