Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has advised that his political adviser and BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas be taken to Singapore for advanced medical treatment. The Prime Minister instructed the foreign minister to make necessary arrangements. The information was shared by BNP Standing Committee member and Minister for Social Welfare, Women and Children Affairs Professor Dr. A Z M Zahid Hossain after visiting Mirza Abbas at the hospital.

BNP Secretary General and Minister for Local Government and Cooperatives Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, along with Standing Committee member Abdul Moin Khan, also visited Abbas. According to BNP Media Cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan, Abbas’s family decided to move him to Singapore following doctors’ advice. He is scheduled to be flown by air ambulance at 6 p.m. to the National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore.

Family sources said Mirza Abbas lost consciousness during iftar on Wednesday and was admitted to a hospital later that night after his condition did not improve. He is currently receiving treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.