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Ignoring physical distancing, people scramble to enter a Covid-19 vaccination centre at the Mugda branch of Ideal School and College in the capital around 8:00am yesterday, moments after the centre opened for the day. The vaccination centre was recently moved there from nearby Dhaka South City Corporation-run Nagar Matrisadan Hospital since it was struggling to accommodate a huge number of people seeking the shots. Photo: Anisur Rahman >
Ignoring physical distancing, people scramble to enter a Covid-19 vaccination centre at the Mugda branch of Ideal School and College in the capital around 8:00am yesterday, moments after the centre opened for the day. The vaccination centre was recently moved there from nearby Dhaka South City Corporation-run Nagar Matrisadan Hospital since it was struggling to accommodate a huge number of people seeking the shots. Photo: Anisur Rahman
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Published: 24 Apr 2021 11:32 AM BdST
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Abul Khair Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, the director of the National Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Referral Centre, has died after contracting COVID-19. );
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Shamsuzzaman passed away on Saturday morning while undergoing treatment at the Sheikh Russel Gastro-Liver Institute and Hospital in Dhaka. He had suffered lung damage due to the coronavirus infection. Doctors pronounced him dead at 7:30 am, Faruque Ahmed, director of the hospital, said.
“The infection in his lungs never cleared up. He also suffered from diabetes, high pressure and obesity. Age was also a factor. He was first admitted here on Apr 10. He was initially in one of the cabins and was later transferred to the ICU when his condition worsened,” he said.
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Prof AKM Shamsuzzaman of NILMRC dies from Covid-19
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Prof Abul Khair Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, director of the National Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Referral Centre (NILMRC), passed away with Covid-19 at a Dhaka hospital this morning.
He breathed his last around 7:00 am while being treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) at the Sheikh Russel Gastroliver Institute and Hospital in Dhaka, hospital director Faruque Ahmed told The Daily Star.
Apart from Covid-19, he had also been suffering from diabetes, high pressure, and obesity. Prof Shamsuzzaman suffered damages to the lungs due to Covid-19 infection, he added.