Ruling Bangladesh Awami League leader and former health minister Mohammed Nasim passed away at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital in the capital on Saturday.
He was 72.
His son Tanvir Shakil Joy told media that his father breathed his last at the hospital around 11:10 am, reports news agency UNB.
The namaz-e-janaza of the AL leader will be held at Banani Jam-e-Masjid around 10:30am on Sunday and he will be buried at his mother’s grave there, AL leader Jahangir Kabir Nanak told newsmen in front of the hospital around 1:30pm today.
His body will be kept at the mortuary of the hospital at night.
Nasim’s body will not be taken to Sirajganj due to coronavirus situation, said Nanak.
Earlier on Friday night, an emergency meeting of a 12-member medical board was held through a videoconference after his health condition deteriorated.
Nasim’s son was present at the meeting.
The medical board was formed on 8 June.
The former minister underwent a successful surgery after his condition deteriorated on 5 June following a stroke while undergoing treatment at the hospital.
A day before that, his health condition had improved and he was scheduled to be shifted to a cabin from ICU.
On 2 June, Nasim tested positive for coronavirus infection.
Nasim, had been performing as convenor for the 14-party alliance forged around the heft of Awami League.
Born on 2 April 1948, Mohammed Nasim served as health and family welfare minister and home minister respectively during 2014–2019 and 1999–2001.
Meanwhile, president Abdul Hamid and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed profound shock at the death of Mohammed Nasim.
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen, road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, law minister Anisul Huq, local government and rural development (LGRD) minister Md Tajul Islam, environment, forest and climate change minister Shahab Uddin, health minister Zahid Maleque, land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque, planning minister M Mannan, post, telecommunication and information technology minister Mustafa Jabbar, commerce minister Tipu Munshi, agriculture minister Abdur Razzaque, textiles and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister Imran Ahmed, railways minister Nurul Islam Sujon, fisheries and livestock minister SM Rezaul Karim, and state minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam, among others, expressed shock at the death of Mohammed Nasim.
Besides, speaker of Jatiya Sangsad Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Nasim.