<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has gone to Singapore on Thursday morning for medical treatment.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fakhrul, along with his wife Rahat Ara Begum and daughter Mirza Safaruh, left Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport via a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 8:30 am, his personal secretary M Yunus Ali told UNB.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said Fakhrul will receive treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore for various health issues, including a blockage in the nerve in his neck.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides, Yunus said the BNP leader’s wife has an appointment with a doctor at the National University Hospital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He, however, could not say when the BNP secretary general would return to Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After being released from jail in 2015, Fakhrul went to Singapore for treatment, where the issue in his internal carotid artery was detected.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since then, he has gone to Singapore every year for follow-up treatment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier this year, in February, the 76-year-old BNP secretary general went to Singapore for a medical checkup. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>