BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed was shifted to North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences from Meghalaya Civil Hospital yesterday.
He was admitted to the hospital at around 6:30pm on the advice of doctors, after stones had been found in his kidney, Abdul Latif Jony, assistant office secretary of the BNP who was with Salahuddin in Meghalaya, told the Dhaka Tribune over phone.
“Doctors of the Civil Hospital found some complications in Salahuddin’s body after examining him. He needs better treatment,” Jony said.
He also said as Salahuddin is ailing, he is unlikely to appear before the court soon. He will be produced before the court after the doctor’s certification.
When Salahuddin was being taken into an ambulance from the Civil Hospital, he told journalists to tell the people of Bangladesh to pray for him.
He also thanked the Meghalaya state government as well as the Indian government for taking initiatives for better treatment for him.
Earlier, Salahuddin’s wife Hasina Ahmed met him for the third time and talked to the media while emerging from the hospital.
“Better treatment was getting priority before producing him in the court. Salahuddin is a cardiac and kidney patient. He needs better treatment. We want to take him to Singapore,” she said.
She met Salahuddin’s lawyer SP Mohonta. She told journalists that Mohonta would look into all legal procedures after analysing the whole situation and the best option for Salahuddin.
Police in Meghalaya lodged a case against the BNP leader for entering India without legal documents. Now, if Salahuddin has to go to a third country he will have to exhaust all legal procedures.
SP Mohonta, a senior lawyer of the Meghalaya High Court, will fight the legal battle on behalf of Salahuddin.
The BNP leader went missing from Dhaka on March 10 and reappeared in Shillong on May 11. Soon after his disappearance, his wife Hasina Ahmed alleged that he had been picked up by Bangladeshi law enforcers.
Salahuddin has recently said that he does not remember much of what happened to him after March 10.