PM orders sending burnt Feni girl to S'pore for better treatment

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed on Monday health authorities to ensure best possible treatment for Nusrat, a madrasa girl, struggling for life as principal of the madrasa allegedly manifested his vengeance setting her on fire for refusing to withdraw sexual harassment charges against him, reports BSS.
"The Prime Minister called me up and asked us to take steps to send her to Singapore for her (Nusrat's) better treatment," Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery's coordinator at Dhaka Medical College
Hospital (DMCH) Samanta Lal Sen told reporters Monday afternoon.
He said the premier issued directives to contact a Singapore hospital and "send her there, if they (Singapore hospital) agree to treat her".
But doctors at the facility said Nusrat's condition made it difficult for her treatment abroad as 80 per cent of her body including the respiratory system were burnt exposing her to breathing problems.
"She has been put on life support," said Samanta Lal while another doctor at the facility said her condition deteriorated overnight.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque, meanwhile, visited the burn institute to see Nusrat and later talked to newsmen outside when he described her condition to be "very critical".
"Yet, if her family wants and the Singapore Hospital authorities agree, we will send her there," Maleque said.
Sheikh Hasina earlier on Monday sent her Special Assistant Biplob Barua to the burn institute to see the girl.