Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given financial assistance of Taka five lakh for the treatment of Shahriar Shahid, a senior journalist of the national news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS).
“The prime minister today allocated Tk five lakh for the treatment of Shahid,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS.
Shahid, a special correspondent of BSS, has now been undergoing treatment in the city’s Apollo Hospital.
He was admitted to the hospital late last month following kidney failure.
