Bhuiyan's condition remains unchanged
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
The condition of former BNP secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, suffering from lung cancer, still remains unchanged, reports bdnews24.com.
Duty doctors at Square Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) said Monday after visiting him that Bhuiyan was under close observation.
The former minister was being administered 70 to 75 per cent oxygen through artificial respiration until Monday morning, ICU doctor Mirza Nazimuddin said.
He is being kept under sedation most of the time and is on life support, the physician added.
A medical board, led by cancer specialist Dr Kamruzzaman, has kept Bhuiyan under keen observation.
Bhuiyan was admitted to Square Hospital on July 7 with breathlessness due to lung cancer. The politician is on life-support system due to his inability to breathe normally.
The former local government minister was flown back to the country on an air ambulance from Singapore, where he went on May 31 for treatment.
The ailing BNP leader had undergone treatment at the Critical Care Unit (CCU) in Singapore National University Hospital.
His family members said that Bhuiyan was given chemotherapy eight times for treatment of lung cancer.
Seven of the eight chemotherapy sessions were administered at Singapore, including the last one, after which the politician has been unable to breathe normally.
He had been on artificial respiration for a week before flying back home.
Mr Bhuiyan was BNP's secretary general for 11 years and served as the LGRD and Cooperatives Minister of the BNP-led government.
He was expelled from BNP on Sep 3, 2007, just before party chief Khaleda Zia was arrested during the emergency period.
Duty doctors at Square Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) said Monday after visiting him that Bhuiyan was under close observation.
The former minister was being administered 70 to 75 per cent oxygen through artificial respiration until Monday morning, ICU doctor Mirza Nazimuddin said.
He is being kept under sedation most of the time and is on life support, the physician added.
A medical board, led by cancer specialist Dr Kamruzzaman, has kept Bhuiyan under keen observation.
Bhuiyan was admitted to Square Hospital on July 7 with breathlessness due to lung cancer. The politician is on life-support system due to his inability to breathe normally.
The former local government minister was flown back to the country on an air ambulance from Singapore, where he went on May 31 for treatment.
The ailing BNP leader had undergone treatment at the Critical Care Unit (CCU) in Singapore National University Hospital.
His family members said that Bhuiyan was given chemotherapy eight times for treatment of lung cancer.
Seven of the eight chemotherapy sessions were administered at Singapore, including the last one, after which the politician has been unable to breathe normally.
He had been on artificial respiration for a week before flying back home.
Mr Bhuiyan was BNP's secretary general for 11 years and served as the LGRD and Cooperatives Minister of the BNP-led government.
He was expelled from BNP on Sep 3, 2007, just before party chief Khaleda Zia was arrested during the emergency period.