Legendary actor and Dhaka-17 constituency MP Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque has been taken to ICU at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital as his health condition deteriorated further.

Farhana, wife of the actor, said he was shifted to a general cabin on April 27 after 37 days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital but suddenly his condition worsened and he was taken to the ICU again.

Farhana urged the countrymen to pray for her husband’s quick recovery.

Farooque was diagnosed with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), septicemia, and pseudomonas.

Actor Farooque, who is also a freedom fighter, film producer and businessman, was elected MP from Dhaka-17 constituency in the last national election.

Farooque appeared in over 150 films in a career spanning more than five decades. Most of his films were commercially and critically successful. 

BDST: 1954 HRS, MAY 26, 2021
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