News desk: Roma Chowdhury, writer and one of the 200,000 Biranganas of the Liberation War, has passed away at the age of 77.
She breathed her last at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) around 4am today while undergoing treatment.
Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) authority has confirmed the news.
Roma Chowdhury was suffering from old age complications and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
She had been suffering prolonged illness after sustained a fracture in her waist on falling down at her residence in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram district on December 24, 2017.
The writer was undergoing treatment at the hospital’s freedom fighters cabin since 25 March after vomiting blood.
Born at Popadia village in Boalkhali upazila in 1941, Roma Chowdhury fell prey to perverted Pakistani military forces at her own residence on May 13, 1971, during Liberation War.
The freedom fighter wielded her pen and wrote 19 books including novel, poetry, articles alongside her teaching in high schools.
