During this disastrous period, when everybody is afraid to even attend the funeral of a corona infected person, Maksudul Alam Khandaker Khorshed came forward to help with the burial and funeral of these people in Narayanganj.
Khorshed along with a team has been burying and arranging the funeral of corona patients in the city and the outskirt of the city. For his humanitarian initiative Khorshed has already collected a lot of praise from the different people and organizations.
Narayanganj-5 MP AKM Selim Osman designated him, Beer Bahadur, while city Mayor Dr. Selina Hayat Ivy said that we should praise the works of Khorshed. Some social organizations titled him as the hero of COVID-19 in the district.
Khorshed and his team has buried 30 bodies of corona patients and arraged funeral of 6. A message spread in the district that Khorshed’s committee is dedicated to bury any person's body dying with corona infection.
So, when a man or women, muslim or hindu dies of corona virus infection their relatives contact Khorshed and he then rushes to the spot and arrange the burial with safety measures declared by the health ministry. From the beginning of corona virus spread Khorshed began to distribute hand sanitizer and masks among the citizens of Narayanganj.
Later, when the district was locked down, the poorer became income less, he started distributing relief goods among the destitute. Then, when Khorshed found out that, the relatives or others are not touching the bodies of corona patients after their death and that some bodies were lying on the streets, he took the task to bury or arrange funeral for the deceased.
When this situation prevailed in the society, Khorshed formed a committee to bury or arrange funeral for these bodies and asked people to contact him for the burial of dead corona patients in the city
Khorshed is a popular councillor in Narayanganj City Corporation's ward number 13 and he has been elected in the same post consecutively three times.
Maksudul Alam Khandoker Khorshed stands beside the people in three steps-to aware the people about corona virus as well as distributed hygienic and reliefs goods. He has been burying bodies of corona patients at any time in day or night.
