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Khadiza smiles, thanks nation

Local November 27, 2016

In her first public appearance after seven weeks of attack by her stalker, Sylhet college girl Khadija Akter Nargis thanked the nation in a smiling face.
Khadiza, an honours student at Sylhet Government Women’s College, was brought before media at a press conference arranged by Square Hospital authority on Saturday as doctors of the hospital found her wounds healed and recommended her release.
She was admitted to the hospital unconscious on October 4, a day after she was hacked in the head and hands by Shahjalal University of Science and Technology unit of Bangladesh Chhattra League assistant secretary Badrul Alam.
‘Thank you all…I am now well as you all prayed for me,’ said Khadiza who was brought on a wheel chair in her hospital dress and a scarf on her head. Her left hand was bandaged.
She appeared before the media smiling. The scarf could not cover her injury mark from the head to nose through middle of the forehead. Her left hand is still not responding properly.
‘Pray for me so that I can be recovered fully,’ she said.
She did not miss to express her gratitude to the Square Hospital physicians for serving her and the media for letting people to know about her condition.
Square Hospital medical services director Mirza Nazim Uddin said that Khadiza now could eat on her own but needed to be aided to walk.
‘As her general and neurological condition is now good, doctors recommended her discharge and admission to a good physiotherapy rehabilitation centre,’ he said.
Responding to a question, he said that they would release her anytime when her admission to a good physiotherapy rehabilitation centre was confirmed.
He said that Khadiza’s ‘Glasgow Coma Score’ was only 5 when she was admitted to the hospital. She was on life support for 10 days.
The GCS is scored between 3 and 15, 3 being the worst and 15 the best. A coma score of 8 or less is a severe brain injury.
Nazim said that the computed tomography scan showed that her scull bones were smashed and scattered, other parts of the brain were severely affected and deviated from midline.
Khadiza was treated at Intensive care unit of Square Hospital until October 19 before she was shifted to the hospital’s high dependency unit from where she was taken to a cabin on November 8, he said.
Khadiza’s father Masuk Mia, referring to the physicians of the hospital, told New Age that Khadiza would be released on Monday and she would be taken to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed at Savar, on the outskirts Dhaka.
Masuk is a resident of village Hausa under Sylhet Sadar upazila.
Wave of protests from all walks of lives against stalking spread over the country following the machete attack on Khadiza by a ruling Awami League-backed student organisation leader in Sylhet city.
She came under attack on October 3 when she came out of her examination hall at Sylhet MC College.
MC College students, Khadiza’s fellows and locals caught the Chhatra League leader Badrul on the spot and handed him over to police after a good beating.
Badrul later made confessional statement before a Sylhet Court.
Shahparan police on November 8 submitted charge-sheet to the Sylhet additional chief judicial magistrate’s court against Badrul.