A brave heart falls silent
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Friday
January 27, 2023

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2023
A brave heart falls silent

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Tawsia Tajmim
15 April, 2020, 10:20 pm
Last modified: 15 April, 2020, 10:52 pm

Related News

  • Potential China wave is 'wild card' for ending Covid emergency: WHO advisors
  • WHO chief hopes Covid will no longer be emergency next year
  • The Prof Writes: Covid-19 - The one that got away from us
  • Long Covid remains a mystery, though theories are emerging
  • Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen tests Covid positive

A brave heart falls silent

It was his intense interest in serving humanity that took Dr Moyeen Uddin to study at Dhaka Medical College. He was infected with coronavirus while discharging his professional duty, and became the first Bangladeshi frontline doctor to die of Covid-19

Tawsia Tajmim
15 April, 2020, 10:20 pm
Last modified: 15 April, 2020, 10:52 pm
Dr Moyeen Uddin. Photo: Collected
Dr Moyeen Uddin. Photo: Collected

"We are working in hospital. You stay at home. May Allah help us," wrote Dr Moyeen Uddin of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College on Facebook on March 23.

The physician kept his words. He continued working in the hospital, treating Covid-19 patients.

But it is while discharging his professional duties that the frontline fighter himself was infected with the deadly virus.

He eventually lost the battle and passed away on Wednesday morning.

The assistant professor of the medicine department at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College is the country's first doctor who died from coronavirus.

Dr Moyeen worked in the hospital amid many challenges. He had to treat patients without personal protective equipment.

At one point, he decided to buy personal protective equipment himself for personal use as well as for junior colleagues.

He discussed this with someone he knows on Facebook, enquiring about the place he could buy personal protective equipment from.

The doctor told that person he was not seeing patients in his chamber because the place was so congested that it was not possible for him to maintain the social distance required for protection from coronavirus.

Even though he did not have personal protective equipment, he did not stop treating patients.

Dr Moyeen first showed Covid-19 symptoms on the last day of March, and immediately self-isolated himself at home.

As the symptoms got intense during home-quarantine, he took a coronavirus test on April 4. The report came the following day and it was positive.

He was still receiving home treatment at the time.

But on April 7, his condition deteriorated, and he was admitted to Sylhet Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital's isolation centre.

His condition did not improve there, and it was necessary to bring him to Dhaka because there is no intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients in Sylhet.

But it was not easy to come to Dhaka for better treatment. He texted officials concerned to arrange an air ambulance, but it was not available.

No government hospital ambulance having intensive care unit facilities was available either.

He was eventually brought to Dhaka by such an ambulance of a private hospital.

Dr Moyeen was admitted to Kurmitola General Hospital on April 8, where he had been on life support since 12th.

He was not only a good doctor but also a compassionate person. Every Friday or during government holidays, he would go to his hometown in the north-western upazila of Chhatak to treat poor and impoverished patients for free.  

He also arranged free medical camps in his hometown on many occasions.   

Local homeopath Askir Miah said Dr Moyeen would also give poor patients free medicine.   

Sohel Ahmed, a senior in the locality, said Dr Moyeen was not only the physician of the poor.  

"He would also refuse to take fees from local patients who would go to his chamber in Sylhet," he said.

"He would display such good demeanour that patients would already be half-cured upon meeting him," added Sohel.  

Condolences poured in on social media following Dr Moyeen's death, with people writing on Facebook what a great human being he was.  

Hours after his demise, Associate Professor of Rangpur Medical College Dr Ridoy Ranjan Roy wrote on Facebook Dr Moyeen was one of the top scorers in the secondary and higher secondary tests.

"He was also near the top of the merit lists at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, the University of Dhaka, and Dhaka Medical College. But it was his intense interest in serving humanity that finally took him to Dhaka Medical College," he wrote.

Dr Ridoy wrote that Dr Moyeen worked hard and earned the degrees – first Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), then the Fellow of College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS) and finally the Doctor of Medicine (MD).  

He described Dr Moyeen as a field marshal of sound health who had jumped into the battle against the invisible coronavirus enemy without sword and shield. 

Top News

Dr Moyeen / Coronavirus / Doctor dies of corona virus / National Hero

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Manufacturers feel the pinch as consumers tighten belt
    Manufacturers feel the pinch as consumers tighten belt
  • Sugar turning bitter!
    Sugar turning bitter!
  • Ministries, divisions with highest allocation lag in ADP implementation
    Ministries, divisions with highest allocation lag in ADP implementation

MOST VIEWED

  • Incepta Pharma abandons Covid vaccine plan
    Incepta Pharma abandons Covid vaccine plan
  • Test tube labelled "Covid-19 Omicron variant test positive" is seen in this illustration picture taken 15 January, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
    Tighter screening at ports urged as new Covid sub-variant BF.7 detected
  • Test tube labelled "Covid-19 Omicron variant test positive" is seen in this illustration picture taken 15 January, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
    First case of new Covid sub-variant Omicron BF.7 detected in Bangladesh: IEDCR
  • Illustration: Collected
    Genome sequencing reports of Chinese nationals infected with Covid by Sunday: IEDCR
  • Computer image of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to Covid-19
    4 Chinese nationals detected with Covid at Dhaka airport
  • Omicron BF7: Land ports still left unguarded
    Omicron BF7: Land ports still left unguarded

Related News

  • Potential China wave is 'wild card' for ending Covid emergency: WHO advisors
  • WHO chief hopes Covid will no longer be emergency next year
  • The Prof Writes: Covid-19 - The one that got away from us
  • Long Covid remains a mystery, though theories are emerging
  • Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen tests Covid positive

Features

According to the CAB president Ghulam Rahman, one of the most common complaints of consumers is being deceived by sellers when it comes to the weight of goods. Photo: TBS

Has the Directorate improved consumer rights in Bangladesh?

1d | Panorama
A 2022 survey of 1,000 companies by professional services consultancy PwC found that between a sixth and a quarter had used AI in recruitment or employee retention in the past 12 months. Illustration: Bloomberg

AI is coming to your workplace. Is the world ready?

1d | Panorama
Edison Desdemona, the newly launched stellar project of Edison Real Estate, located at Bashundhara Residential Area. Photo: Courtesy

EDISON DESDEMONA: A creation like no other

2d | Habitat
BruTown by PARTI.studio. Photo: Junaid Hasan Pranto

Interesting ceiling design ideas to elevate any space

2d | Habitat

More Videos from TBS

Kajol’s road paintings bring change in Gafargaon

Kajol’s road paintings bring change in Gafargaon

6h | TBS Stories
Carew & Company witnessed a remarkable growth

Carew & Company witnessed a remarkable growth

7h | TBS Stories
PCB recalls cricketers from BPL ahead of PSL

PCB recalls cricketers from BPL ahead of PSL

9h | TBS SPORTS
Why Misha Sawdagar became villain instead of a Hero?

Why Misha Sawdagar became villain instead of a Hero?

8h | TBS Entertainment

Most Read

1
Picture: Collected
Bangladesh

US Embassy condemns recent incidents of visa fraud

2
Four top bankers arrested in DSA case filed by S Alam group 
Bangladesh

Four top bankers arrested in DSA case filed by S Alam group 

3
Illustration: TBS
Banking

16 banks at risk of capital shortfall if top 3 borrowers default

4
A frozen Beyond Burger plant-based patty. Photographer: AKIRA for Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Special

Fake meat was supposed to save the world. It became just another fad

5
Photo: Collected
Splash

Hansal Mehta responds as Twitter user calls him 'shameless' for making Faraaz

6
Ctg Port Gets A Boost: The Chattogram port officially starts to berth vessels with 10 metres drought on Monday. As of now, only 9.5m draught vessels could anchor at the port, each carrying 2,500 TEUs. But the 10m draught ship will be able to carry 4,000 TEUs, bumping up the port’s container handling capacity and bringing down costs. The photo was taken recently from the port area. Photo: Mohammed Minhaj Uddin
Bangladesh

Dollar crisis: 3 ships with 54,000 tonnes of goods get stuck at Ctg port

EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2023
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]