Limon Hossain, a college student who was shot by the Rapid Action Battalion resulting in the amputation of his left leg, will be able to walk again before Eid, Centre for Disability in Development officials said on Wednesday.
'We have already made an artificial limb… we will attach it to his thigh at our centre at Savar tomorrow,' the CDD executive director, AHM Noman Khan, told New Age on Wednesday.
It usually takes several days to fit the limb to the body, Noman said. 'But all will be done before Eid-ul-Fitr.'
Sohel Ali Afzal, a resident physician at Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital at Dhanmondi, where Limon is now under treatment, said that the CDD would take him to Savar to attach the limb.
The 16-year-old Limon was delighted as he was told that he would able to walk again with crutches.
Limon, however, appealed to the government to withdraw the 'false' cases filed against him and pay for his education so that he could lead a decent life.
Limon was shifted to Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital on June 6 from the National Institute Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation.
On March 23, a RAB team at Rajapur in Jhalakathi shot Limon in the left leg, a few days before he was to take the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations.
On March 25, he
was admitted to NITOR where his leg had to be amputated.
Nur Khan, director of Ain o Salish Kendra
which is providing legal assistance for Limon,
told New Age on Wednesday that 'as Limon could walk again, our major concern remains about his rehabilitation.'
Source : New Age
