Local govt expert Tofail Ahmed passes away at 71

Bangla Press Desk: Local government expert and former academic Professor Tofail Ahmed passed away on Wednesday night. He was 71.

He breathed his last at around 9:30pm at a hospital in the capital. 

The news of his passing was confirmed by his son-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel Sarwar Jahan.

Professor Ahmed, a former faculty member of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Chittagong, had been admitted to United Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest. Doctors later found three blockages in his heart, in addition to a lung infection, according to Sarwar Jahan.

He was taken to the operating theatre on Wednesday afternoon for a procedure to insert stents. However, his condition deteriorated during the operation, and he was placed on life support. Doctors pronounced him dead around 9:30pm.

Tofail Ahmed will be laid to rest on Thursday at the family graveyard in Fatehpur village under Hathazari Police Station in Chattogram.

Professor Ahmed served as the head of the Local Government Reform Commission and was widely respected for his research and policy work on local governance in Bangladesh.

He is survived by his wife and a daughter. This article was originally published on Daily Sun.

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