The officials of Uttara Central Chess Club expressed their gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for providing Taka ten lac financial help for the treatment of sick chess player Siam.In a Central Chess Club press release on Wednesday, the club officials also thanked to the sports loving Premier for her noble gesture.
The message read that through this donation the Prime Minister not only stand beside the
sick Siam but also stand beside the whole chess arena. Her cooperation would also encourage the all chess players to concentrate more in sports.
Earlier, three-time sub-junior chess champion Ikramul Haq Siam has appealed to the
financially fortunate to come forward to save his life as the 20-year-old is suffering from a degenerative disc disease that has all but paralyzed his right leg.
The promising player caught the eyes of all after winning the gold medal in the First KOP
Youth Chess Festival in Turkey in 2015 but the former national junior champion is now unable to sit in front of the board of black and whites and is confined to a wheelchair and undergoing regular therapy to curb the acute pain.
The BBA student needs at least 6,00,000 Bangladesh Taka (which is equivalent to 4,80,000 Indian rupees or 7420 USD) to undergo a surgery as per the doctor’s advice.
But Siam, who lives with his maternal uncle following the death of his mother and re-marriage of his father, is unable to manage the money for his surgery.
