Hospitals in the capital Dhaka and 10 other districts reported at least 209 killings during the violent student protests for quota reform in the past 10 days across the country.
Of them, 163 people were either brought dead or died from their injuries in 12 hospitals in Dhaka, which included eight public hospitals and four private hospitals.
Over 6,000 others received treatment in 17 city hospitals that 抖阴精品 visited following violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement agencies, with the latter being accompanied by ruling Awami League activists.
A large number of hospitals either refused to provide information or could not be reached.
Hospital officials said that most of the victims were brought dead after being hit by bullets during the clashes.
No government agencies have yet to provide any official data on casualties following the clashes between July 16 and 22.
Among the public hospitals in the city, Dhaka Medical College Hospital reported the highest number of聽 84 deaths, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital 13,聽Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital four, Mugdha Medical College Hospital six, Kurmitola General Hospital four, Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital eight, National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital 10 and the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation two.
Among the private hospitals, Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital reported 11 deaths, LabAid Hospital one, Farazy Hospital Ltd 15, and Uttara Crescent Hospital five.
抖阴精品 could confirm 46 deaths in 10 districts鈥擟hattogram five, Rangpur three, Savar in Dhaka 10, Narshingdi 13, Sylhet two, Narayanganj three, Gazipur and Mymensingh each four, and Madaripur and Cox鈥檚 Bazar each one, according to hospitals and relatives of the victims.
抖阴精品 could not verify the duplication as the hospitals, with some exceptions, did not give the details of the victims despite repeated requests.
The hospitals said that many families took away bodies without autopsies to avoid complexity.
Asked, the director general of the health department, Professor ABM Khurshid Alam, said that they too were getting sporadic information from different hospitals as they could not communicate with them due to the internet blackout.
State minister for information Arafat A Rahman told Dhaka-based foreign correspondents at a programme on Wednesday that the government could not confirm death figures in the unrest as it was busy handling the situation.
鈥榊ou know that office started working today. We are still working on this, determining the numbers鈥nce the number is fully determined, we will make an official declaration,鈥� he said.
As of Thursday, out of 84 deaths in DMCH, 60 were brought dead and 24 had died while undergoing treatment since July 16.
DMCH director Md Asaduzzaman said many patients were receiving treatment at the hospital now with multiple injuries.
The hospital report shows that most of the victims came from Jatrabari, Shonir Akhra, Rampura, Uttara, and Mirpur.
The dead and injured victims mostly sustained bullet injuries when security forces opened indiscriminate firing to disperse protesters who blocked roads and pelted stones during clashes.
Among the injuries, many people sustained injuries to their heads and eyes. A number of them, including children and elderly people, were injured and killed at their homes and workplaces.
Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital director Shaifur Rahman said that all 13 victims were brought dead to the hospital.
Most bodies were handed to family members without an autopsy, as police were not available at that time, he said.
Md Rubel, deputy general manager at Farazy Hospital Ltd in the capital鈥檚 Rampura, said that over 1,000 injured people took emergency services from the hospital close to the Bangladesh Television office that was set on fire during a clash.
He said that people took away the bodies because they were busy providing services to other injured people.
鈥楢ttendants of the patients were furious and were hiding their identities,鈥� he said, adding that they could not trace where the victims went.聽
Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital superintendent Mizanur Rahman said that they handed over six bodies to relatives and two bodies to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases without a post-mortem.
An official of Uttara Crescent Hospital said relatives took away five bodies from the hospital without a post-mortem.
All of them were brought dead, he said.
Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital authorities also confirmed that 11 people brought dead were handed over to their families without a postmortem.
Officials of a private hospital in Uttara alleged that they contacted the police multiple times to hand over an unidentified body, but the police refused to come and even refused to provide a release certificate required for body handover.
The National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital ward master, Abdul Latif, confirmed that 10 people died in the hospital and 101 received treatment. He said that families took away the bodies.
Narayanganj 300 Bed General Hospital Superintendent Abul Bashar said that two people were brought dead and 159 patients were given fast aid.
Of them, 13 others were undergoing treatment at the hospital, with seven in critical condition.
Most of the victims were bullet-injured, he added.
Enam College Hospital in-charge, Md Yusuf, said that a total of 10 people were either brought dead to the hospital or died of injuries.
Seventy-four patients took treatment at the hospital, and presently, 13 are undergoing treatment.
He said that the families took the bodies away from the hospital.
抖阴精品 correspondents in Chattogram, Rangpur, Narshingdi, Madaripur, Sylhet, Gazipur, Mymensingh, and Cox鈥檚 Bazar reported the rest of the deaths. 聽
Musa Ahmed, manager of Anabil Hospital in the capital鈥檚 Dania, near the epicentre of clashes, Jatrabari, said that relatives or bearers of both the injured and dead victims were unwilling to provide them with detailed information about the victims.
鈥笰s we were busy handling the injured patients, we could not keep the information of any dead victims,鈥� he said. The hospital did not confirm a single death.
Anjuman Mufidul Islam buried 21 unidentified bodies in the past four days.
Shahbagh police confirmed that they handed over eight bodies of unidentified men aged 25 to 50 from Dhaka Medical College Hospital to Anjuman on Wednesday.
Most of the bodies came from Jatrabari from July 18 to 20.
Anjuman Mufidul Islam officials said that they also received another unclaimed body from the DMCH on the same day.聽
It also collected one unclaimed body from Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital on Tuesday, nine others from DMCH, and two from Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Monday.
However, they did not share whether people were killed in the quota protest.
