Soul-stirring compassion, Citizens lend a useful hand in recovery and rescue operations
THEY were pulled by a deep sense of humanity to do some hand-holding
with the men and women buried under the wreckage of the Savar building
collapse. Many young men, students and others, local and from far away
places of their own volition, converged on the wreckage site and worked
wonders as good Samaritans. They strained their ears to sense any purring sign of life and
focused their eyes on every nook and cranny of the rubble to respond to
any faintly audible SOS call. They went with their bare hands to get to
work that was fraught with daunting odds. Their grit, ingenuity and
compassion drove them into improvising devices to get to the badly
wounded or dead men and women and shoved them out into the open. As
priority was given to the survivors, recovery of dead bodies was
considered no less important for turning the corpses over to their
relatives.
The important thing to realise is that the conditions were
life-threatening both for the victims as well as those on rescue
mission, although in varying degrees. It took a lot of brawn, brain,
courage and presence of mind to work out split second solutions to get
the living and dead out of the piles of rubble. Those who donated blood
in large numbers deserve a word of thanks. They all are achieving a mission impossible shoulder to shoulder with
the army, navy, air force, police, BGB and civil defense personnel on
whom we depend for the major part of the undertaking. Their call to duty
is hardly over, though.
The way different hospitals have been working relentlessly to succour
the suffering giving them a life-saving healing touch has been quite
laudable as well. Now, the real job begins of helping the injured to their feet and
rehabilitating them as compensation is given to bereaved families.
Source: The Daily Star
