In the evening of September 2011 an earthquake took place in Panchgarh. During that time a nurse named Arjina Khatoon set a rare example of discharging her noble duties at a private hospital in Panchagarh.
The hospital source, disclosing this rare incident, stated that on the fateful Monday evening a ceaserian operation was being performed at the city general hospital on a pregnant women named Sultana Begum. A male child was born to the lady through C-section. The umbilical cord was not even dissected and detached when the earthquake hit the town. When the surgeon Kamalakanta Barman, anaesthetist Arifur Rahman and others were running out of the operation theatre in a bid to save their lives even then the undaunted nurse stood alone in the O.T. with the new born child praying to Almighty to save the mother and the child.
Arjina Khatoon 28, said, “I stayed back in the OT, thinking that the lives of the mother and child could be at stake if I left them there. Besides the umbilical cord was not dissected yet. So I could not come out with the baby alone. I decided to stay back at the OT and face the eventuality at its worst. When all the instrument and apparatus were falling down from the operation table due to the tremour of earthquake, I was trebling fearfully and was praying to God for his mercy.”
Zahidul Islam, the director of the hospital describing the incident afterwards, said, “When we all including the surgeon and other doctors ran out of the hospital during the quake, this nurse Arjina stayed back at the OT to save the lives of the mother and the new born child. Such incident is very rare as during such disaster everyone want to save his own life.