Staff Reporter :
Former health minister Mohammed Nasim is in a ‘critical’ condition at a Dhaka hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
The Awami League leader was admitted to the Bangladesh Specialised Hospital in Shyamoli with fever last week and later tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
He underwent a brain surgery on Friday after suffering a stroke. He is being treated in intensive care.
Kanak Kanti Barua, the vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, is heading a panel of 13 physicians to guide Nasim’s treatment.
“His condition is critical,” Barua told the media on Saturday. Nasim is the son of M Mansur Ali, one of the four national leaders slain inside Dhaka Central Jail in 1975 after the assassination of independence architect Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
He became home minister when the Awami League returned to power in 1996.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not keep him in her cabinet after sweeping the 2008 elections, but made him health minister in the next term after the 2014 polls.
Zahid Malik, who had been the state minister for health during Nasim’s stint at the helm, is health minister now.
A presidium member of the ruling party, Nasim has been working as the coordinator of the 14-Party Coalition led by the Awami League.
Former health minister Mohammed Nasim is in a ‘critical’ condition at a Dhaka hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
The Awami League leader was admitted to the Bangladesh Specialised Hospital in Shyamoli with fever last week and later tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
He underwent a brain surgery on Friday after suffering a stroke. He is being treated in intensive care.
Kanak Kanti Barua, the vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, is heading a panel of 13 physicians to guide Nasim’s treatment.
“His condition is critical,” Barua told the media on Saturday. Nasim is the son of M Mansur Ali, one of the four national leaders slain inside Dhaka Central Jail in 1975 after the assassination of independence architect Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
He became home minister when the Awami League returned to power in 1996.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not keep him in her cabinet after sweeping the 2008 elections, but made him health minister in the next term after the 2014 polls.
Zahid Malik, who had been the state minister for health during Nasim’s stint at the helm, is health minister now.
A presidium member of the ruling party, Nasim has been working as the coordinator of the 14-Party Coalition led by the Awami League.
