Found alone at railway station, ailing elderly woman now recovering

The condition of an ailing centenarian woman, who was rescued from a railway station 14 days after her relatives left her alone in bone-chilling winter, has improved slightly. "Now she can speak but keeps mum whenever asked about her identity," said Dr Salauddin, resident medical officer of Gomastapur Health Complex, on Wednesday.

He said the woman who was on saline is now taking normal food. "She, however, keeps mum whenever we ask her about her address and children. Instead, she vents her annoyance." After spending 14 miserable days on the platform of Rohanpur Railway Station in this shivering cold, the woman was rescued by the local administration and taken to Gomastapur Health Complex on January 12. After her admission to the hospital, she used to regain consciousness from time to time just to relapse again due to her frail health.

When the woman managed to talk to the UNB correspondent, she could not come to terms with the fact of being furtively abandoned by her family members and left to perish because she is a burden for them at her old age.

"It started raining after the elderly woman was left at the platform. As people who abandoned her did not come back, I placed hay on a deserted place under a date tree. Then I prepared a bed with an old blanket for her," he said. "Even though I'm poor, I tried my best to take care of this woman. This is how she spent two weeks braving all the odds," Sirajul said.

Found alone at railway station, ailing elderly woman now recovering

The condition of an ailing centenarian woman, who was rescued from a railway station 14 days after her relatives left her alone in bone-chilling winter, has improved slightly. Now she can speak but keeps mum whenever asked about her identity, said Dr Salauddin, resident medical officer of Gomastapur Health Complex, on Wednesday. He said the woman who was on saline is now taking normal food. She, however, keeps mum whenever we ask her about her address and children. Instead, she vents her annoyance. After spending 14 miserable days on the platform of Rohanpur Railway Station in this shivering cold, the woman was rescued by the local administration and taken to Gomastapur Health Complex on January 12. After her admission to the hospital, she used to regain consciousness from time to time just to relapse again due to her frail health. When the woman managed to talk to the UNB correspondent, she could not come to terms with the fact of being furtively abandoned by her family members and left to perish because she is a burden for them at her old age. It started raining after the elderly woman was left at the platform. As people who abandoned her did not come back, I placed hay on a deserted place under a date tree. Then I prepared a bed with an old blanket for her, he said. Even though Im poor, I tried my best to take care of this woman. This is how she spent two weeks braving all the odds, Sirajul said.