The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, now in Canada, has expressed her desire to return home at the end of August on completion of her medical treatment.

"Sheikh Hasina has told me that she wants to come back home in the last week of August on completion of her treatment," Hasina's personal physician in Dhaka Dr Syed Mudasser told newsmen at her clinic yesterday.

Hasina who has been facing a number of graft cases was released on June 11 following an executive order of the government and allowed to go abroad for medical treatment and stay there for eight weeks.

The eight weeks' time will expire in the first week of August, but her doctor Friday said if Hasina's health condition does not deteriorate further, she might come by the end of August.

"Sheikh Hasina's right ear and left eye were almost damaged. Her doctors in the USA are continuing her treatment. But it's not possible to complete the treatment within the eight weeks' time," Dr Mudasser said.

He informed the journalists that the hearing aid of Sheikh Hasina has been readjusted as its date expired when she was in Bangladesh.

With proper treatment, Sheikh Hasina's damaged ear and eye could be cured, Dr Mudasser said.

Despite problem in the eye and the ear, and cardiac complications, Hasina is now feeling better in a homely environment with her daughter and other relatives in Canada, he said.