Ctg doctor dies of post-Covid complications

Professor Dr Farid-ul-Alam, former head of Pediatrics Department of Chattogram Ma o Shishu Hospital and Medical College, died of post-Covid-19 complications at the hospital in the port city today.

He was a MBBS student of batch-17 at Chattogram Medical College, our Chattogram staff correspondent reports quoting Dr Faisal Iqbal Chowdhury, general secretary of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), Chattogram chapter.

Prof Alam (67) tested Covid-19 positive around two months ago. After receiving treatment at the hospital, he tested negative but had been suffering from various post-Covid-19 complications, said Dr Faisal.

As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to the ICU at Chattogram Ma o Shishu Hospital where he breathed his last around 12:10am today, said the BMA leader.

With his death, a total of 24 doctors died of Covid-19 or post-Covid-19 complications in Chattogram since the onset of the pandemic in March last year.