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Jharna Dhara Chowdhury, a life-long social activist and ardent proponent of the values espoused by Mahatma Gandhi, has died at the age of 80.
Jharna, the secretary of the Gandhi Ashram Trust in Noakhali, passed away around 6:00am on Thursday at Dhaka’s Square Hospital where she was being kept on life support, said Swadesh Roy, president of the Trust.
Jharna won national awards from Bangladesh and India for her social services, bdnews24.com reported.
She was suffering from hypertension, diabetes and other age-related complications for long, said director in the ashram Raha Naba Kumar.
She had a brain haemorrhage on June 1 and was admitted to the Square Hospital the next day. Jharna suffered a second haemorrhage on Wednesday and was put on the life support system but did not survive.