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There are no fingerprints of a 6-member family in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila. The family is very distressed by this.
The trouble for Amal Sarkar and her family members in Puthia has started since the fingerprints for the national identity card were taken in 2006.
When Amal Sarkar repeatedly failed to give fingerprints, the staff in charge of fingerprint collection did not understand exactly what they would do. After speaking with officials, it was written on the NID card that there is no fingerprint. Not only Amal Sarkar and her son Apu Sarkar, but six family members do not have fingerprints due to a rare hereditary problem.
His shame increases day by day. In 2016, when fingerprinting became mandatory for mobile SIM cards, Apu Sarkar was once again in danger.
Apu said, “Every time I go to take a fingerprint, the software hangs. When I told them about my problem, they said, ‘Sorry, we can’t give a SIM without a fingerprint.’
Apu said, my grandfather also had the same problem. But I don’t think my grandfather ever saw it as a problem.
Apu Sarkar told reporters that all three of his father and his younger brother now use SIM cards in their mother’s name. They are also ashamed of the passport. Passports were not issued because no fingerprints were available. Finally, after trying for a few months, Amal Sarkar got her passport by presenting the certificate of the medical council that the civil surgeon gave her.
However, he still did not have the courage to travel abroad for fear of getting into trouble again after going to a foreign airport. Amal Sarkar uses a motorcycle to get around. However, he does not have a driver’s license.
“I have submitted the registration fee,” he said. But he didn’t give me a driving license because he didn’t have a print.
Now, while riding a motorcycle, you keep the fare receipt submitted to the BRTA. Even then he had to pay a fine twice.
Amal Sarkar’s father and grandfather had the same problem. Both were the only children of the parents. His two brothers were born with the same problem. Older brother Gopesh Sarkar recently obtained his passport after waiting almost two years. Gopesh Sarkar works in a hospital in Dinajpur.
“I had to go to Dhaka four to five times for this passport to show that I really have this problem,” he said. When his hospital staff began taking fingerprints for attendance, he persuaded officials to sign the record the old-fashioned way.
Recently, Apu Sarkar and his father made a smart card showing his medical certificate. I couldn’t give fingerprints, but retina scanned them.
Since Amal and Gopesh Sarkar have known since childhood that fingerprinting problems are hereditary, they have never sought treatment. However, Amal Sarkar used a cream on the advice of a doctor to reduce the roughness of the skin on the palms of her hands.
Amal Sarkar said that when she is in agriculture, the skin on her hand tears easily and is relatively rough. You are already uncomfortable with this. You are being humiliated step by step by this problem.
Amal said she was a bit surprised when she went to shake someone’s hand. I’m a little embarrassed about this.
According to a BBC Bangla report, the medical board identified the problem as “congenital palmoplantar keratoderma.” Professor Peter Etin, a Swiss dermatologist, and several other researchers published a research paper on the subject in 2011. In that study, they identified the genetic mutation responsible for this inherited or genetic problem.
At the time of their research, four families had been identified around the world who were genetically predisposed to the problem. Everything was outside the Asian continent.
Professor Eaton told BBC Bangla: “We still know some families around the world.” Professor Eaton sought refuge in the United States in 2008 after a Swiss woman failed to give him a fingerprint. That was the first such patient for him. Subsequently, the research team studied 16 members of the woman’s family to find out the cause of the inherited problem.
The research team gave another name to this disease ‘Immigration Delay Disease’ or ‘Immigration Delay Disease’. Professor Eatin believes that the government is turning the family’s hereditary keratoderma into a secondary edematoglyph. Secondary adermatoglyphics can be present in a relatively large number of people. Sometimes there are clear lines on the fingertips. Only through gene therapy can it be cured in the future.
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