Hundreds of admirers pray for Dr Litu
Hundreds of admirers pray for Dr Litu
Emotion gripped the scene and scores of admirers including his patients, fellow doctors, friends, relatives and ordinary people joined the prayers recalling his extraordinary dedication to the profession and care for particularly poor people that prompted him to launch Bangladesh Patient Welfare Foundation, reports BSS.
The qulkhwani also drew a huge number of people from different professions including politicians, senior officials, businessmen, policemen, shopkeepers and residents in the neighbourhood.
Litu served as the founder general secretary of the foundation aimed to stand by poor patients with serious ailments who lacked money for their appropriate treatments by generating funds from affluent people including rich patients.
He also spearheaded a crucial campaign for the health service reforms benefitting both doctors and patients at grassroots and make accountable the physicians regarding their professional responsibilities that earned him the repute of being the “poor men’s doctor”.
Litu was last serving as the head of the cardiology department of Adhunik Medical College Hospital and director and chief cardiologist of Lubana General Hospital in Uttara.
He left behind his wife Rokeya Parveen Shimu and three minor sons Namir, Numair and Nayef, aged between seven and 11. Litu, hailed from Boalmari village of Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila, was youngest of four brothers and two sisters.
Fellow doctors said excessive professional works and stress broke his health, exposing eventually to the cardiac failure giving little scopes to leading cardiologists and other doctors to help him out as he breathed his last at Lab Aid Hospital on January 18.
A huge number of people had crowded at the hospital, his two namaj-e-janazas in Uttara and eventually his burial at Uttara Sector 12 graveyard after Asha prayers on the same day.
Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital staged yesterday a memorial meeting at their premises where the doctors and staff paid their tributes to Litu while Lubana Hospital will arrange another condolence rally at their premises after asr prayers on January 25.
