Quader to be released from Singapore hospital today

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader will be discharged from the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore Friday afternoon.

He is scheduled to be discharged after 3:00pm (local time) and will stay in Singapore for few more days for follow up treatment as per the advice of the physicians, said Abu NaserTipu, deputy principal information officer of the road transport and bridges ministry.

On 26 March, Obaidul Quader was moved to a cabin from the intensive care unit of Hospital after his condition improved.

The minister underwent a bypass surgery there on 20 March.

He was initially admitted to BSMMU on 3 March following breathing complications. Later, tests revealed three blockages in his coronary artery. He was flown to Singapore the next day for better treatment.