Published : 29 Sep 2026, 05:56 PM
Updated : 29 Sep 2026, 05:56 PM
From roadside tarpaulins to a damaged room, Radda MCH-FP Centre is gradually restoring healthcare services after its demolition.
Vaccination resumed indoors on Monday and continued for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday, while the centre’s electricity connection has also been restored.
Health workers were administering vaccines from a partially renovated room, sitting on several chairs amid the damage, while a doctor provided women’s reproductive and healthcare services nearby.
Several rooms have been cleaned, fans installed and curtains hung over broken windows.
Volunteers from different BNP-affiliated organisations are helping with the cleanup, while workers remove concrete, bricks and other debris from the damaged areas and rebuild the centre’s front wall.
“Several rooms at the centre have been cleaned and fans have been installed. Curtains have been hung over the broken windows. Volunteers from various BNP-affiliated organisations are working here. At the same time, broken concrete, pieces of bricks and other debris are being removed from other rooms and the demolished areas. Several workers are also rebuilding the damaged wall at the front of the centre.”
“Repairs to the washroom and water lines have not yet been completed. However, a new water tank has been brought in.”
Housewife Lovely Akter, who brought her younger daughter for vaccination, said the centre had served residents of Mirpur for years.
“We have been living in the Mirpur area for more than 10 years. Almost everyone around our home comes to this centre. We receive various kinds of advice and services here. I had brought my younger daughter to get vaccinated.”
“But after coming here, I find the condition of the place frightening. Why was such a good facility or hospital demolished like this? Whoever is responsible should be identified, and the health centre should be restored to normal as soon as possible.”
A local businessman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the centre had provided valuable services for years but criticised its failure to secure the land in its own name.
“They have been providing services here for many years, which is a very good thing. But after working here for so long, they failed to secure the land in their own name. That is a kind of failure on their part.”
Radda Executive Director Nasrin Akter said, “We have been providing vaccinations since morning. So far, 60 people have come to receive services at the centre. Of them, 46 came for vaccination and the rest came for various types of healthcare advice.”
She said the centre was in better shape than before, with electricity restored and repairs to the water supply and other facilities under way.
On Sept 24, the entire facility, including one permanent and three semi-permanent buildings belonging to the organisation, was demolished using heavy machinery.
The attackers then put up a signboard reading “Somomona Dokandar Samity Limited” in front of the property.
Radda alleged that a large quantity of office equipment and vaccination supplies was looted during the attack.
Nasrin filed a case with Shah Ali Police Station over the incident, naming local BNP leader Hanif and 200–250 others as suspects.
