Writer Humayun Ahmed is lying unconscious in a New York hospital after a deadly virus made his treatment difficult, a top official has said.
"He's been lying unconscious in the Intensive Care Unit," Bangladesh's Permanent Representative at the United Nations Dr Abdul Momen, who visited the writer Tuesday night (Wednesday morning Dhaka time), told bdnews24.com.
"There is accumulated water in his lungs, but the doctors said his brain is still functioning," he said.
Doctors at the Bellevue Hospital told Momen that they had failed to detect the virus rendering their efforts fruitless.
"An unknown virus, which could not be detected immediately, has spread through his body," Momen said quoting doctors.
The writer is currently under watch in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital and his lungs have swollen.
"The virus has infected him at the time he was expected to be recovering from illness," the ambassador said.
Humayun's friend and renowned actor Asaduzzaman Nur, MP, who is currently at the US, also visited the popular contemporary Bengali fiction writer at the hospital.
"His condition has slightly improved. But he is still in ICU. We are worried," Nur told bdnews24.com at 10:30pm on Wednesday.
The 63-year-old writer went to New York on Sept 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.
After that, Humayun underwent a surgery on Jun 12. He was admitted to a Jamaican hospital after one day as he suffered from abdominal pain.
From there, he was transferred to the Bellevue Hospital for a second surgery.
His younger brother Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, also a renowned fiction writer, is currently at New York to stay by his side along with Humayun's wife Meher Afroz Shawon.
Born in Mymensingh in 1948, he did his graduation from the Dhaka University and later joined the university as a lecturer of Chemistry but later became 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.
"He's been lying unconscious in the Intensive Care Unit," Bangladesh's Permanent Representative at the United Nations Dr Abdul Momen, who visited the writer Tuesday night (Wednesday morning Dhaka time), told bdnews24.com.
"There is accumulated water in his lungs, but the doctors said his brain is still functioning," he said.
Doctors at the Bellevue Hospital told Momen that they had failed to detect the virus rendering their efforts fruitless.
"An unknown virus, which could not be detected immediately, has spread through his body," Momen said quoting doctors.
The writer is currently under watch in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital and his lungs have swollen.
"The virus has infected him at the time he was expected to be recovering from illness," the ambassador said.
Humayun's friend and renowned actor Asaduzzaman Nur, MP, who is currently at the US, also visited the popular contemporary Bengali fiction writer at the hospital.
"His condition has slightly improved. But he is still in ICU. We are worried," Nur told bdnews24.com at 10:30pm on Wednesday.
The 63-year-old writer went to New York on Sept 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.
After that, Humayun underwent a surgery on Jun 12. He was admitted to a Jamaican hospital after one day as he suffered from abdominal pain.
From there, he was transferred to the Bellevue Hospital for a second surgery.
His younger brother Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, also a renowned fiction writer, is currently at New York to stay by his side along with Humayun's wife Meher Afroz Shawon.
Born in Mymensingh in 1948, he did his graduation from the Dhaka University and later joined the university as a lecturer of Chemistry but later became 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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