Online Desk: A young graffiti artist and organiser died from the mosquito-borne disease dengue while undergoing treatment at a Chattogram hospital on Friday. She was 26. Artist Tania Farabi Tisha was daughter of Dhaka-base monthly newspaper ‘Moulik’ Editor Nurul Absar and a resident of Feni’s Daganbhuiyan upazila. Tisha was first admitted to a hospital in Dhaka after she had been infected with dengue fever four days back, said her father. Later, she was shifted to private National Hospital in Chattogram last Wednesday to take care of her as she had no attendants in Dhaka, he said.

Physicians of the private hospital first declared her dead on Thursday afternoon while undergoing treatment and two hours after it, they again informed that she was still alive, the father said. At 2:00 pm on Friday, she breathed her last while she was put on life support at the hospital, the editor said. Completing graduation from Feni Government College, she got admitted at an art college in Dhaka and worked for a private firm.

In a Facebook post, Dainik Kaler Kantho’s Feni correspondent Assaduzzaman Dhara said Tisha and her friends gained fame by drawing graffiti on roads in Feni town last year and she was known to all as a graffiti teacher. People of Feni are shocked at the loss of a young and talented artist, the post said. It may be mentioned that 1,148 deaths from the viral fever dengue have so far been reported this year.