Hasina wants to go abroad for treatment

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Detained Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday expressed her willingness to go abroad for treatment on physicians' advice, but the authorities said the jail-code would not allow her trip outside the country on medical grounds, reports UNB.
Prof ABM Abdullah of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Sunday conducted a three-hour medical checkup of Hasina at the makeshift jail in the parliament-building complex, and advised shifting her to hospital for better treatment.
Talking to the reporters at the jail gate, Prof Abdullah said she has developed rash all over her body. Besides, her right ear is fully damaged, and left ear partially.
The doctor said, Hasina was given injection for allergy. "Her right ear cannot respond.
It is better to treat her ear abroad."
He said her high blood-pressure has been under control, and hoped the weakness she now feels would be gone in a couple of days.
Prof Abdullah said she should be admitted to hospital where the doctors would be able to check her regularly. But this is not possible in a jail.
In reply to a question about Hasina's intention to receive treatment at hospital, the doctor said, she would think about it, though she does not get confidence about it.
About her treatment abroad, Abdullah said she would agree on treatment abroad, if her physicians advised. "I will do whatever you will advise," he quoted her as having said.
DIG (prisons) Maj Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told the reporters that the jail authorities are very much sincere about her treatment. They have already requested her to receive treatment "at any hospital of her choice under her selected doctors" inside the country.
About her treatment abroad, the DIG said, "We would have been pleased to do that, but the jail-code does not permit us."