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Construction worker left disabled and penniless
Sutradhar was knocked down by a careless driver at night and suffered serious injury and brain damage.
- By Bassma Al Jandaly, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:32 December 27, 2008
- Image Credit: Francois Nel/Gulf News
- Ratan Sutradhar at the Rashid Hospital.
Dubai: A breadwinner and father who came to the UAE to support his family in Bangladesh will return crippled, his life wrecked by a reckless driver.
Ratan Sutradhar, 27, father of two children was knocked down by a car which left him with severe injuries and brain damage.
His colleagues claim the court compensated Sutradhar only Dh500 and according to a spokesman from his company, Sutradhar will be deported within five days.
Rashid Hospital, where he was treated for the last four months, is asking for Dh22,000 in unsettled hospital bills.
Sutradhar, who is now mentally ill, is still at ward No.3 at the Dubai hospital and has been there for more than four months with no financial support.
Medical reports state he has recovered from the serious injuries which needed metal plates inserted into one of his legs and both arms.
A friend of Sutradhar told Gulf News that the Bangladeshi construction worker came to Dubai seven months ago.
"Sutradhar started working hard at a construction company wishing to pay back the Dh7,000 loan he had to borrow in order to pay for Dubai visa," the friend said.
Recalling the accident, the friend said while he was at work, a speeding vehicle hit the victim at night in the last week of July.
"I was the first one at the scene when he was hit. I was holding him in my arms waiting for rescue to come. His condition was very serious and he needed to be airlifted to Rashid Hospital emergency section, where he spent the next four months," he said.
He added that Sutradhar was supposed to be discharged by the hospital two weeks ago, his employees were then planning to send him back to Bangladesh.
The friend added that the company has tried to seek compensation from the driver who knocked down Sutradhar, but in vain.
"Sutradhar needs some help before he is sent back to his wife and his two kids - to whom life will perhaps never be the same with a handicapped father," the friend said.
He added that the driver who hit Sutradhar, first claimed to have seen someone hitting Sutradhar and driving off.
However, when the police arrived on the scene they found the number plate of the vehicle that hit Sutradhar, the driver then confessed to running over the victim.
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