Former minister for expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment of the ousted Awami League government Imran Ahmed was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning after he fell sick at Sylhet Central Jail.
The SOMCH police outpost in-charge Alauddin confirmed the news to ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· saying that the former minister was brought to the hospital at around 10:00am.
The hospital staff said that Imran Ahmed stayed for some time in the office of the hospital director after he was brought from the jail and then he was taken to the cabin number 13 of ward 10 on the hospital’s second floor.
They said at noon that the condition of the former minister was stable.
The SOMCH director and its deputy director could not be reached over their cell phones for comment in this regard.
Contacted, Sylhet Central Jail officer Tariqul Islam told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that the former minister Imran Ahmed was suffering from different complications.
‘The minister was sent to the Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital in the morning from the prison for treatment,’ he said.
Imran Ahmed was arrested at Banani in Dhaka on October 21 last year.
Later, he was shown arrested in several cases filed after fall of the Awami League government in August.
On February 5, he had been produced before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Sylhet after showing him arrested in three murder cases and he has been in Sylhet Central Jail since then.
