Bangladesh's detained former Premier Sheikh Hasina was not cooperating with the jail authorities over her medical treatment, a top prison official said.
DHAKA: Bangladesh's detained former Premier Sheikh Hasina was not cooperating with the jail authorities over her medical treatment, a top prison official said here on Sunday, a day after her family stated that she was suffering from various ailments.
"We have been repeatedly telling her she needs to undergo medical checkup and treatment for eye and gynecological problems but she told us she would let us know later," Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons, Major Shamsuddin Haidar Siddqui, told.
"Despite (she) being a detainee, we are extra cautious about her status and health since she is a former Prime Minister, leader of a major political party (Awami League) and daughter of (Bangladesh's founder) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman."
Siddiqui's comments came a day after Hasina's maternal aunt Khadiza Hossain, who visited her at her makeshift sub-jail at Parliament complex, told reporters that the ex-Premier was ill and needed immediate treatment.
The DIG Prisons said the jail officials also consulted her personal gynecologists and eye specialists who earlier treated her and they said they needed Hasina's pathological and opthalmologic test reports while "we told her your health is the first priority."
Hasina, who was arrested on a graft charge on July 16, did not appear before a court earlier this month for "sickness" as a court was set to formally indict her in an alleged "extortion" case filed by a Bangladeshi businessman.
Authorities in emergency-ruled Bangladesh allowed Hasina's nuclear scientist husband Wajed Mia, her distant grandchildren and aunt to meet her on the occasion of Eid-ul Adha two days ago.
It was the second Eid for Hasina and her archrival Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) behind bar when close relatives were also allowed to see them.
The current interim government installed with crucial military supports on January 12 this year detained nearly 200 influential politicians, including dozens of former ministers of two subsequent regimes of Awami League and BNP as part of a massive anti-graft campaign.
More than 20 of them, some along with their spouses and sons and daughters, were already jailed on different terms while dozens others went into hiding abroad as the campaign was launched.
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