3 Monipur schoolboys get new lease of life
Staff correspondent
Three students of Monipur Cadet School and college, who were critically wounded after being stabbed by one of their classmates last month, have recovered fully.The boys -- Kazi Naimul Islam Badhon, Wadidul Kabir Tonmoy and Kazi Nibrush Nilav -- returned home yesterday after being treated at Ibn Sina Hospital for about a month. Jahan, a classmate of the three, and his two friends cut the throats of the three class seven and looted valuables from Badhon's house on June 15. The victims were not acquainted with Jahan's friends. As the tracheas, vocal cords and parts of oesophagus of the boys were cut, they could not speak but responded by writing on papers. On their recovery from injuries, the hospital authorities organised a press conference at its auditorium yesterday where the doctors formally handed over the boys to their parents. Dr Tawfiq Munim, chief medical officer of Ibn Sina Hospital, told The Daily Star that a 10-member medical team was formed for the treatment of the boys. "It's a huge success for us. The boys are now able to speak again," he said, adding that the physicians had been in doubt whether the boys would recover from vocal cord injury. "I am grateful to the doctors of IBN Sina Hospital who have given my son a new lease of life," said Guley Noor Begum, mother of Badhon. Jahan and two of his accomplices were arrested two days after the incident.
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