
Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital administration formed an eight-member medical board on Sunday evening for the treatment of former Supreme Court justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik.
The hospital director brigadier general Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan on Monday said that the medical board led by the college principal Shishir Ranjan Chakrabarti was formed to ensure proper treatment of Shamsuddin Chowdhury.
‘His physical condition is now better,’ said Mahbubur Rahman, adding, ‘The former justice already had various physical problems. Two rings had been set to his heart several years back. Besides, he has been suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes.’
The SOMCH’s radiology department professor Ashiqur Rahman Majumdar, endocrinology department professor Md Shah Imran, cardiology department professor Mokhleshur Rahman, surgery department head Mohammad Khaled Mahmud, anaesthesia department head Md Khairul Bashar, urology department associate professor Md Shafiqul Islam and senior clinical pathologist Kanta Narayan Chakraborty are the members of the board.
Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik has been undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit of the medical college since Saturday night. He underwent a surgery on his boy for his scrotal injury on Sunday.
Earlier on Friday night, a patrol team of the Border Guard Bangladesh arrested Manik while he was allegedly fleeing the country through the Dona border at Kanighat in Sylhet, the police said.
Kanaighat police station officer-in-charge Zahangir Hossain Sarder told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that the BGB handed him over to the police on Saturday.
The OC said that a case was filed against Manik with the police station on Sunday night for his attempt to cross the border illegally.
He also said that the former justice was accused in a case filed with a court in Dhaka.
On Saturday afternoon, Sylhet judicial magistrate Alamgir Hossain passed an order asking the authorities to send the former justice to jail after police produced him before the court showing him arrested under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Witnesses said that many people were seen trying to attack Manik, and they also humiliated him by throwing eggs and shoes at him when he was being taken to the district judicial court.