The condition of popular contemporary Bengali fiction writer Humayun Ahmed, undergoing treatment in the United States, improved further on Tuesday.
A K Momen, Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told bdnews24.com of the improvement.
The writer's oxygen mask, put on due to respiratory problems, was removed on the evening of Jul 2, Momen said.
He said Humayun could talk as his condition had improved.
Referring to doctors at the Bellevue Hospital, where Humayun is undergoing treatment, Momen said Humayun's last CT scan report did not indicate any trace of cancer in his body. He further saidthe wound from recent surgery was also healing.
Doctors had successfully pumped out around 400 millilitres of water around 6:45pm on Jul 2 (NY time). Otherwise, he could have been infected by pneumonia, Momen said.
Humayun went to New York on Sep 14 last year with his wife and children for undergoing colon cancer treatment. The writer had been living at a rented flat in Queens with his family.
He underwent 12 chemotherapy cycles at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre.
Humayun returned home on Jun 19 after undergoing colon surgery on Jun 12. He was admitted to a Jamaican hospital one day later as he suffered from abdominal pain. From there, he was transferred to the Bellevue Hospital for second surgery.
Born in Mymensingh in 1948, he did his graduation from Dhaka University and later joined the university as a lecturer of Chemistry but retired to become a fulltime writer and filmmaker.
Winner of prestigious Bangla Academy Award in 1981, Ekushey Padak in 1994 and three National Film Awards (Best Story in 1993, Best Film 1994 and Best Dialogue in 1994), Humayun continued writing while he was undergoing treatment in New York.
On Jan 13, the government made the 63-year old writer Senior Special Adviser to the Bangladesh Mission at the United Nations in New York.
A K Momen, Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told bdnews24.com of the improvement.
The writer's oxygen mask, put on due to respiratory problems, was removed on the evening of Jul 2, Momen said.
He said Humayun could talk as his condition had improved.
Referring to doctors at the Bellevue Hospital, where Humayun is undergoing treatment, Momen said Humayun's last CT scan report did not indicate any trace of cancer in his body. He further saidthe wound from recent surgery was also healing.
Doctors had successfully pumped out around 400 millilitres of water around 6:45pm on Jul 2 (NY time). Otherwise, he could have been infected by pneumonia, Momen said.
Humayun went to New York on Sep 14 last year with his wife and children for undergoing colon cancer treatment. The writer had been living at a rented flat in Queens with his family.
He underwent 12 chemotherapy cycles at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre.
Humayun returned home on Jun 19 after undergoing colon surgery on Jun 12. He was admitted to a Jamaican hospital one day later as he suffered from abdominal pain. From there, he was transferred to the Bellevue Hospital for second surgery.
Born in Mymensingh in 1948, he did his graduation from Dhaka University and later joined the university as a lecturer of Chemistry but retired to become a fulltime writer and filmmaker.
Winner of prestigious Bangla Academy Award in 1981, Ekushey Padak in 1994 and three National Film Awards (Best Story in 1993, Best Film 1994 and Best Dialogue in 1994), Humayun continued writing while he was undergoing treatment in New York.
On Jan 13, the government made the 63-year old writer Senior Special Adviser to the Bangladesh Mission at the United Nations in New York.
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