Medical board recommends sending Hasina abroad
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
A medical board Tuesday recommended sending detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina abroad for her ear treatment, within hours of her admission into the city's Square Hospital, reports UNB.
Hasina was brought to the hospital at 8:50am from the makeshift jail in the parliament-building complex. She has been suffering from problems with her ears and eyes, allergy and high blood pressure.
She is now under treatment of a seven-member medical board in a cabin on level-14 of the hospital amidst tight security. Prof Shaila Khatun, Prof Syed Modasser Ali, Prof Pran Gopal Dutta, Prof ABM Abdullah, Dr Habib Millat, Dr MU Kabir and Dr Baren Chakrabarty are on the medical board.
Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Prof M Tahir told the reporters that the medical board recommended that she be sent abroad for her ear treatment, "which is not possible in this country."
He said the ENT physicians who examined her ears expressed the opinion that it would not be wise to 'touch' her damaged ears. "She should be treated from the medical centre where she got treatment earlier."
In reply to a question, he said it is a unanimous opinion of the medical board.
Hasina, who suffered damage to her ears following the impact of a deadly grenade attack on her public rally in Dhaka on August 21, 2004, received treatment in the US. She uses hearing aid that has become inoperative.
Prof Tahir said the Awami League Chief also has blood-pressure problem, which is now under control. But he prescribed that it needs constant monitoring.
This is for the second time she was brought out of jail to the hospital within three weeks' time. On February 21, she was brought to the same hospital for medical checkup.
Hasina was brought to the hospital at 8:50am from the makeshift jail in the parliament-building complex. She has been suffering from problems with her ears and eyes, allergy and high blood pressure.
She is now under treatment of a seven-member medical board in a cabin on level-14 of the hospital amidst tight security. Prof Shaila Khatun, Prof Syed Modasser Ali, Prof Pran Gopal Dutta, Prof ABM Abdullah, Dr Habib Millat, Dr MU Kabir and Dr Baren Chakrabarty are on the medical board.
Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Prof M Tahir told the reporters that the medical board recommended that she be sent abroad for her ear treatment, "which is not possible in this country."
He said the ENT physicians who examined her ears expressed the opinion that it would not be wise to 'touch' her damaged ears. "She should be treated from the medical centre where she got treatment earlier."
In reply to a question, he said it is a unanimous opinion of the medical board.
Hasina, who suffered damage to her ears following the impact of a deadly grenade attack on her public rally in Dhaka on August 21, 2004, received treatment in the US. She uses hearing aid that has become inoperative.
Prof Tahir said the Awami League Chief also has blood-pressure problem, which is now under control. But he prescribed that it needs constant monitoring.
This is for the second time she was brought out of jail to the hospital within three weeks' time. On February 21, she was brought to the same hospital for medical checkup.