UNO’s health improves, maid held

The health condition of Ghoraghat upazila nirbahi officer Wahida Khanam, who was severely injured in an attack in her house recently, improved on Monday while the police detained her domestic help for interrogation.

Wahida, who is undergoing treatment at National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital, will be shifted to high dependency unit from intensive care unit, the hospital’s neurotrauma department head Mohammad Zahed Hossain said.

He said that the medical board formed for the UNO took the decision after the 72-hour observation ended on Sunday night.

She was kept at the ICU after a surgery in her head.

‘The right side of her body is still paralysed and we haven’t seen any improvement. Physiotherapy is needed for making it functional and we have already started to provide her the therapy,’ said Zahed, head of the medical board, at a press briefing on Monday.

He said that Wahida could now talk and she was inquiring about her family, child and husband.

‘She’s still feeling a light pain in her head,’ he said.

Ghoraghat police station officer-in-charge Amirul Islam told New Age that they had detained the UNO’s domestic help, Jubaida Begum, aged about 38, from her house at Chalkbamunia village under Ghoraghat upazila early Monday for interrogation.

He said that they had also seized a red shirt, one plastic stick and personal protection equipment as evidence from the UNO’s government residence in Ghoraghat upazila town. Wahida and her father Sheikh Omar Ali were seriously injured in the attack at her official residence early Thursday.

They were taken to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital from where Wahida was airlifted to Dhaka.

Meanwhile, government employees of Gongachara upazilla of Rangpur district on Monday morning formed a human chain amid the torrential rain in front of the upazilla complex protesting at the attack on Wahida and her father.

Condemning the attack, speakers demanded exemplary punishment of the perpetrators immediately through a fair investigation.

The Detective Branch officials who are investigating the case filed by the UNO’s brother have been quizzing three suspects in the case — expelled Juba League leader Asadul Islam and wall painters Nabirul Islam and Santu Chand.

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