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People to pay respects to Dr Zafrullah at Central Shaheed Minar on Thursday

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The body of Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra and valiant freedom fighter, will be taken at the Central Shaheed Minar for the common people to pay their last respects to him.

The body will be kept at the Shaheed Minar from 10:00am to 1:00pm.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Chairperson Alfatun Nesa Maya made the disclosure at a briefing on Wednesday.

She said that Dr Zafrullah’s body will be given a guard of honour.

Then, his body will be taken to Suhrawardy Udyan from Shaheed Minar. His first namaz-e-janaza will be held there at 2:30pm.

On April 14, his second namaz-e-janaza will be held at Gonoshasthaya Kendra in Savar after Juma prayers.

Dr Zafrullah breathed his last around 11:00pm on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi.

His body is now at the mortuary of BIRDEM.