State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak has taken the responsibility to alleviate the financial shortage of Eva Khatun in Bagatipara Upazila of Natore. Personally, he has taken all the responsibility of educating this orphan girl in a medical college.
The state minister confirmed the matter while talking to Eva on his mobile phone on Thursday.
Last Wednesday, a report was published in the online edition of Prothom Alo under the headline ‘Eva worried about financing medical school’. After reading the report, Junaid Ahmed Palak contacted the girl’s parents. “I personally want to do whatever it takes to become a doctor,” he said. “If I am alive, she would have no problem studying medicine.”
Prothom Alo reported that Eva Khatun, daughter of Jharna Begum and late Yusuf Ali of Solaipara village in Bagatipara Upazila. When he was two years and four months old, his father died of kidney problems. From then on, the girl started growing up in a poor family. Jharna Begum had to mortgage 0.15 acres of her land to treat her husband. He had to pay for his family and daughter’s education by doing tuition with great difficulty.
Eva Khatun has got the opportunity to be admitted to Magura Medical College this year. But his family cannot afford to be admitted to medical college. As a result, his dream of studying medicine and becoming a doctor became uncertain.