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Ambulance syndicates are holding patients hostage
This time, the victim was a newborn, who had just arrived in this world, carrying a wave of joy for the family and promise of a future. But that journey was cut short by the ambulance syndicate of Shariatpur. A baby was born in a local clinic with severe breathing complications. The family was advised to rush the child to Dhaka, and in desperation, they hired an ambulance
Not long into the journey, their ambulance was intercepted by a member of Shariatpur's ambulance syndicate. Despite desperate arguments and pleas, the ambulance was not released for a while. And in that cruel delay, the newborn, who had barely set foot on earth, was sacrificed at the altar of a syndicate's greed.
Ambulances of this syndicate routinely charge far more than the standard fare for trips such as Shariatpur to Dhaka. But does money carry more value than life? As citizens of this state, how devoid of conscience have we become to let a newborn's life be lost due to abuse of power? Whose responsibility is that?
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