The health condition of former health minister Mohammed Nasim, now at Incentive Care Unit, is unchanged as he still remained unconscious following an operation after a brain stroke on Friday.
Quoting physicians, Nasim’s son Tanvir Shakil Joy told New Age on Saturday that they would observe him at ICU for two more days for normal return of his consciousness.
Nasim, also a presidium member of ruling Awami League, was undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital at Shyamali in Dhaka after tested positive for COVID-19.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s neurosurgery department professor Raziul Haque performed the surgery on Friday.
After the operation, Tanvir Shakil told reporters that prime minister Sheikh Hasina assured him of arranging better treatment for his father if needed.
Nasim was admitted to Bangladesh Specialised Hospital with fever and breathing problem on Monday.
He was admitted to the hospital with about 50 per cent infection on his lung, Tanvir said, adding that his father was hospitalised in the day when his mother Laila Arjumand recovered from COVID-19 at the hospital.
Nasim was given plasma therapy on Tuesday.
Later, Bangladesh Specialised Hospital authorities collected samples of Nasim for COVID-19 test and the result came positive on Monday.
The 74-year-old former minister had been suffering from different health complications, including high diabetes.
Leaders of 14-Party Alliance in a statement on Friday said that Nasim, coordinator of the alliance, suffered a stroke during the army-backed caretaker government regime as he was tortured by the then rulers.
