The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The medical treatment of former Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina in the US will begin on Thursday (June 18).

A message received in Dhaka yesterday from her son Sajib Wazed Joy residing in Boston in the US said this adding that Sheikh Hasina passed her first day abroad with the family members and friends of her son and daughter-in-law Christine Wazed Joy.

Sheikh Hasina, who was released from prison on

Wednesday and arrived in Boston on Thursday evening, was staying at Joy's residence their.

"Although a number of her well-wishers and local party leaders went to seek Shaikh Hasina at her son's residence in Boston, she did not meet them," the message said, adding, "Her son has already contacted her doctors in Boston and Florida."

The AL President will undergo medical treatment for her eye in Boston first and than she will move to Florida for treating her ears complication and repairing or replacing her hearing-aides.

Meanwhile, some senior AL leaders, who fled Bangladesh to avoid arrest in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign and now living different countries of the world, have started arriving in Boston to meet Sheikh Hasina.

Those already arrived in Boston include Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, former Chief Whip Abul Hasanat Abdullah, former Whip Mostafa Rashidee Suja and Shamim Osman.