A school student has died in the ambulance as the authority delayed the departure of a ferry at Khathalbari jetty in Madaripur for three hours for a VIP Person .
Satyajit Chowdhury : Titas, son of Tapas Ghosh from Kaliya in Narail, was a student of Kaliya Pilot Secondary School. On Thursday evening, he was initially taken to a private hospital in Khulna after he was severely injured in a motorcycle accident.
He was later being shifted to Dhaka in an ambulance equipped with an intensive care unit, as the doctor flagged his condition as critical.
The ambulance reached the jetty at around 8 pm. The ferry was at the jetty at the time. They begged for help from the jetty operators and the police on duty, but no-one budged and the ferry stayed there.
“A VIP cost the life of my brother. Is a VIP more important than a life in this country?” said Tannisha.
Titas’s mother Shonamoni Ghosh has nothing but a stream of tears. “Do you think I’ll get back my child if I tell everything to you? They killed my son. I fell on their feet and begged but they did not start the ferry. My child could have survived if the ferry departed on time.”