Mystery deepens over death of woman

The patient Marium Begum, 25, daughter of Hazrat Ali, a rickshaw mechanic, hailed from Purba Enayetpur in Gazipur.

Her father said Marium died due to wrong treatment by the doctors at Nightingale General Hospital and Diagnostic Limited at Ashulia Sarkar Market in Savar where she underwent an operation on Tuesday.

As her condition deteriorated, the doctors sent her to the DMCH where the doctors declared her dead at around 5:45pm on the day.

Hazrat Ali also demanded punishment to the doctors responsible for her death.

Marium, mother of a three-year-old child, was first admitted to the clinic a month ago for treatment of a tumour on the middle finger of her right hand and the doctors then operated on her finger, her father said.

But when gangrene developed on that finger later, she again consulted with the doctors of the hospital and they suggested amputation of the finger.

Her finger was amputated at the clinic on Tuesday, but suddenly her condition deteriorated during the operation and she died on way to the DMCH, her father added.

DMCH sources suspected that a fault on the part of anaesthetist might have led to her death.

But the incident of taking away her body from the DMCH has been shrouded in mystery. The woman who took away the body claimed to be her sister while her father said Marium was her only daughter.

The woman identifying herself as Mosammat Nazma took away the body in the early hours of yesterday without a post-mortem.

None of the Nightingale Hospital officials were available for comments despite repeated attempts.