Awami League presidium member and former home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun will be flown to Bangkok on Monday for better treatment.
Sahara Khatun is now undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital in the capital and all preparations have been taken to shift her to Thailand through an air ambulance, Md Mujibur Rahman, her assistant, told BSS on Friday.
Mujibur said the veteran politician would be admitted to Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok.
On June 2, Sahara Khatun, an Awami League lawmaker, was admitted to the capital’s United Hospital with various health complications. She is now undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital.
United Hospital’s Communication and Business Development Chief Dr Sagufa Anwar said Sahara Khatun’s family is going to shift her to a Bangkok hospital for better treatment and all arrangements have been taken to do so.
A member of the ruling party’s policymaking Presidium, Sahara represents the Dhaka-18 constituency for a third term. She served as the home minister and later the post and telecommunication minister in the 2008 Sheikh Hasina-led cabinet.