By Xinhua
Dhaka : Bangladesh’s detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday refused to go abroad for treatment on government conditions.
Hasina, suffering from several health complications, said she would not go abroad for treatment by accepting the conditions. She fell sick in court on Dec 31 last year.
Personal physicians of Hasina Sunday formally requested Chief Advisor of the Bangladesh caretaker government Fakhruddin Ahmed to send her to the US for treatment.
Earlier, the then law and information adviser of the caretaker government Mainul Husein, who resigned Tuesday, said the authorities would consider sending Hasina abroad if she or her party proposed it.
Hasina, who ruled the country for five years from 1996, was arrested on July 16 last year on corruption charges.
The present military-backed caretaker government launched a campaign to root out corruption from the country’s politics before the general elections take place by year-end.
Nearly 200 former ministers, parliament members, including another former prime minister Khaleda Zia, were arrested on charges of corruption, extortion and abuse of power.