{"id":55495,"date":"2019-11-03T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T08:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=55495"},"modified":"2019-11-03T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T08:27:16","slug":"khokas-condition-deteriorates-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=55495","title":{"rendered":"Khoka\u2019s condition deteriorates further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img class=\"wp-image-55496 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Khoka1-300x174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Khoka1-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Khoka1-696x403.png 696w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Khoka1.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/>News Desk: The health condition of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka worsened further as doctors stopped providing cancer treatment to him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMy father\u2019s condition is now very critical. He has been now providing palliative care to keep his breathing comfortable through applying sedative,\u201d Kokoa\u2019s son Ishraque Hossai told UNB on Saturday from the USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He further said, \u201cDoctors have stopped giving him treatment for cancer as he is not in a condition to receive it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ishraque said his father\u2019s return from such moribund situation completely depends on Allah\u2019s blessings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said Khoka has been undergoing treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since October 18. \u201cInitially his condition was not very bad, but it worsened a few days back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ishraque urged all not to spread any rumour over Khoka\u2019s life and death. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to hide if anything bad happens to him since he is a freedom fighter, four-time MP, and two-time minister.\u00a0 We\u2019ll inform if any bad situation arises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Khoka stepped into politics through joining Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani\u2019s National Awami Party (NAP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Later, he joined BNP, and was made party\u2019s Dhaka city unit president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Khoka was first elected MP in 1991 from Sutrapur-Kotwali seat and subsequently made State Minister for Youth and Sports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was elected MP from the same seat in 2001 and given the charge of the Minister of Fisheries and Livestock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Later, he contested Dhaka City Corporation election in 2002 and was elected mayor. He held the post for nearly nine years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Khoka, also a former minister, was arrested days before the January-5 national election in 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Released on bail from jail, he was admitted to Birdem Hospital in the capital, but doctors could not exactly detect his health problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Later, he went to the USA on May 14, 2014 and has been receiving treatment there since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Desk: The health condition of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka worsened further as doctors stopped providing cancer treatment to him. \u201cMy father\u2019s condition is now very critical. He has been now providing palliative care to keep his breathing comfortable through applying sedative,\u201d Kokoa\u2019s son Ishraque Hossai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":55496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=55495\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khoka\u2019s condition deteriorates further - Bornomalanews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News Desk: The health condition of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka worsened further as doctors stopped providing cancer treatment to him. \u201cMy father\u2019s condition is now very critical. 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