Sayeed Muhammad: Rama Chowdhury, one of the 200,000 Biranganas of the Liberation War, has been suffering old age complications at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
Parts of her body swelled up due to shortage of blood, with blood pressure gone out of control, making it concerning to revive to life, Alauddin Ahmed Khokon, physical steward of the war heroine.
He came up with the updates quoting duty doctor of the hospital, adding that the danger to life of her sickness will be made sure after some medical tests.
Rama Chowdhury, 77, has long been suffering illness after she sustained fracture in her waist on falling down at her residence in Boalkhali upazila in the district on December 24 last year.
Also an author, she was undergoing treatment at the hospital’s freedom fighters cabin since 25 March after vomiting blood.
Born at Popadia village in Boalkhali upazila in 1941, Rama Chowdhury fell prey to perverted Pakistani military forces at her own residence on May 13, 1971 during Liberation War.
The freedom fighter wielded her pen and wrote 19 books including novel, poetry, articles alongside her profession teaching in high schools.
She lost her husband and two children in the Liberation War of 1971. On May 13, 1971, Pakistani occupational army brutally tortured and violated her as well as torching her house at Popadia in Boalkhali upazila of Chittagong.
Out of grief and respect for freedom fighters, Roma started walking barefooted from 1972. Though she momentarily stopped walking barefooted for health condition, she resumed the practice on December 16, 1998 when her youngest son was killed in a road accident and never stopped the practice afterwards.
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