One of the 10 Bangladeshis who survived the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal has been brought back to Dhaka.
Schoolteacher Shahreen Ahmed, 29, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on arrival from Kathmandu by a regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at 3:48pm on Thursday.
Her two brothers were accompanying her.
A DMCH burn unit team was waiting for Shahreen’s arrival at the Dhaka airport.
Resident Surgeon Partha Shankar Paul of the DMCH unit told bdnews24.com at the airport that he had heard Shahreen suffered burns on 50 per cent of her skin.
“She also suffered leg injuries. We are fully ready for her treatment,” he said.
Another Bangladeshi survivor, Md Rezwanul Haque, was flown to Singapore with his family for further treatment.
His father Mozammel Haque arranged the transfer, said US-Bangla Airline General Manager Kamrul Islam.
Doctors in Nepal have discharged six of them, two are still in intensive care and one is being treated at the burn unit, according to the foreign ministry.
Shahreen took treatment at the Kathmandu Medical College Hospital which also discharged Mehedi Hasan, Saiyada Kamrunnahar Swarna and Almun Nahar Annie. Mozammel was treated at the OM Hospital.
Mehedi, Swarna and Annie will soon be sent to Bangladesh, said Mashfi Binte Shams, Bangladesh ambassador to Nepal.
Al Alimul Islam Imam, head of chancery at the Bangladesh Embassy in Nepal, said Eakub Ali would be received by his brother Dipu Bepari at Norvic Hospital.
Another patient, Emrana Kabir Hashi, will be taken to New Delhi by her family from Kathmandu Medical College Hospital, Imam told bdnews24.com.
Eakub has been discharged already while the formalities are on for Hashi, he said.
Among the remaining three Bangladeshis, Sheikh Rashed Rubayat and Md Kabir Hossain are admitted to the ICU in Kathmandu Medical College Hospital while Md Shahin Bepari is under treatment at the burn unit of the hospital.
An aircraft operated by the US-Bangla Airlines crashed with 71 people on board in Kathmandu on Monday killing 49, including 26 Bangladeshis.
As ordered by the prime minister, a seven-member team led by Dr Lutfor Kader Lenin, associate professor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, is flying to Nepal to treat the victims, in particular those with burns.
Two members of the police’s Criminal Investigation Department are flying along to help Nepal authorities to speed up DNA tests to identify those who died of burns.
Nepal is categorising the bodies based on nationality, foreign ministry officials have said. But those who died from severe burns are yet to be identified, reports bdnews24.com.
