Block Found in Health Minister Sakhawat's Heart, Stent May Be Placed Sunday Afternoon
A blockage has been found in the heart of Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain. A ring (stent) is expected to be placed in his heart on Sunday (15 November) afternoon.
On Saturday (14 November) morning, the health minister was admitted to Continental Hospital in the capital after suddenly feeling chest pain. After admission, his heart angiogram was completed on Saturday afternoon.
It was after that angiogram that the blockage in his heart became known, and the decision to place a stent on Sunday afternoon was announced.
The admission to hospital was confirmed on Saturday by Paban Chowdhury, public relations and senior information officer of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He had said that when the minister went to Continental Hospital on Saturday morning with a sudden heart problem, doctors carried out an angiogram and some other tests, and that he remained under the doctors' observation.
Dr Fazle Rabbi Khan, general manager of Continental Hospital's Communications and Business Development department, said on Saturday that the health minister's angiogram was performed under the leadership of cardiologist Dr Moniruzzaman and that he was under treatment.
With the stent procedure scheduled for Sunday afternoon, the health minister remains under treatment at the hospital.
