Group portrait at Enam Medical College, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Survivor

Suvra Kanti Das | Bangladesh

 She was stuck in under the rubble of the collapsed building for three days before being rescued. It was dark and full with dust, two other bodies were pressing on her right leg with a pillar on top. There was not a single inch to move; it was hot, difficult to breathe and not a single drop of water to drink. After 72 hours when she was pulled out from the rubble, the doctors realized that they need to amputate her right leg to save her life. Her mother also worked in one of the garment industries that collapsed. Although Arati was rescued but her mother had lost her life.

 

 She was stuck in under the rubble of the collapsed building for three days before being rescued. It was dark and full with dust, two other bodies were pressing on her right leg with a pillar on top. There was not a single inch to move; it was hot, difficult to breathe and not a single drop of water to drink. After 72 hours when she was pulled out from the rubble, the doctors realized that they need to amputate her right leg to save her life. Her mother also worked in one of the garment industries that collapsed. Although Arati was rescued but her mother had lost her life.

Now she is left with three sisters who depended on her and her mother’s income. The youngest is only two years old who still cries searching for her mother. Her father is a day laborer fears for the future of her daughter.
In the 24th April, the 8th stored Rana Plaza collapsed. 1131 people died, thousands of people injured and approximate 45 people lost their hand or leg. Their hand or leg amputated inside the rubble by general rescue worker using butcher knives or hacksaws blade and without anesthesia to free the workers who were trapped under the rubble of Rana Plaza.
Who lost their leg or hand; they are still fighting to survive. They don’t know what will be happen in the future. Most of them still now admitted in the hospital.
Rikta, 27, who worked on the 3rd floor of Rana Plaza and had her right arm amputated inside the rubble when she was rescued nearly 72 hours after the building collapsed said – “I have only one hand now, if I lost my one leg and can save my right arm then I will able to do something. Aroti is one kind of lucky…….”

 Suvra Kanti Das

shuvo28@hotmail.com

cell: +8801711313030

Dhaka, Bangladesh

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