HM Ershad hospitalised with old-age complications

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, who has been suffering from multiple health conditions for about nine months now, was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka yesterday. “He is undergoing treatment for acute knee pain, liver complications, low hemoglobin, and high bilirubin,” said Ershad’s Press Secretary Shunil Shuvo Roy. “Condition of the 89-year-old politician was slightly better now. He has been put on sedatives at the ICU,” GM Quader, acting chief of JP, told this paper at 9:15pm yesterday.