Staff Correspondent

Detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has declined again to get admitted to any hospital in the country, while a specialist physician, after examining her health on Thursday, advised that she be hospitalised immediately.

‘Doctors have advised Sheikh Hasina to be admitted to a hospital but she refused to get admitted to any hospital in the country’, deputy inspector general (prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui, who was present during her medical check-up Thursday, told reporters at the jail gate.

Specialist physicians of Hasina’s choice are examining her health and they will again see her Friday’, the DIG (prisons) said adding that the next course of action regarding her treatment would be decided as per the advice of all the doctors.

Skin specialist at Holy Family Hospital, Professor MU Kabir Chowdhury, along with medicine specialist Professor ABM Abdullah, also personal physician of Hasina, examined her health for more than two hours from 3:30pm and advised her immediate hospitalisation.

‘Sheikh Hasina was tested for allergy, sugar and cholesterol. The next steps will be taken after completion of the tests’, Kabir Chowdhury told reporters after examining her health. He said that tension, side-effects of several medicines, environment and food might be responsible for her skin problems, although her skin was improving now.

Prof ABM Abdullah also advised that Hasina should be hospitalised immediately. ‘I visited her yesterday and to record the follow-up’, Abdullah told reporters.

The physicians said that Hasina developed multiple complications and required immediate treatment by a multidisciplinary medical board.

Hasina, arrested at her Dhanmondi house on July 16, 2007, has been suffering from multiple ailments, including ear complications. Hasina faces three extortion and two corruption cases. Her lawyers and party leaders alleged there had been a lapse in her treatment, but a prison official denied the charge.

Hasina’s husband M Wazed Mia on Tuesday sent a letter to the chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, requesting her release and proper treatment abroad. Demand for Hasina’s release and treatment abroad got momentum after the release of her party colleague Abdul Jalil, now being treated in Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on a 30-day parole.

The authorities are thinking about forming a high-powered medical board, with physicians approved by Hasina to decide whether she would require treatment abroad.

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