A bullet from the left leg of Ayesha Begum, an elderly beggar, was removed on Saturday, 110 days after she was shot in the leg during the anti-quota student movement in Munshiganj.

The surgery was performed at City Health Care and Diagnostic Centre in the Manikpur area of ​​the district at about 1:30pm.

Despite going to several places for help, Ayesha did not get any help from Munshiganj General Hospital, the district civil surgeon and district administration.

Ayesha had been shot in the left leg on August 4, just a day before the Awami League regime was toppled amid a student-led mass uprising.

Since then the 76-year-old woman, who lives alone and begs for survival, had been struggling to get treatment for her wounded leg.

Ayesha said that she was stuck in a clash between protesters and AL supporters on a road near Munshiganj General Hospital on August 4 in the morning, where she was shot in her left leg.

The health affairs sub-committee of the Students Movement against Discrimination on September 28 said that it had enlisted 1,581 people killed and over 31,000 injured in the mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to resign as prime minister and flee to India.

On November 13, many people who were injured during the uprising blocked the road in front of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation in Dhaka city over mismanagement in their treatment.

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