Jalil donates Tk 50,000 for treatment of journo Bashar

By Bss, Dhaka
22 October 2005, 18:00 PM
Mohammad Abdul Jalil, chairman of the Mercantile Bank Foundation, donated Tk 50,000 for the treatment of senior journalist Abul Bashar who has been suffering from liver cirrhosis.

Former Senior Reporter of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and The Independent, Abul Basher was suggested by the attending doctors to undergo "living donor liver transplantation" which is not possible in the country at the present moment. Doctors suggested him to go abroad for better treatment that would require about Tk 30 lakh which is not possible on the part of the modest family of Bashar.

While expressing gratitude for the good gesture and personal magnanimity of Abdul Jalil for the generous donation, Bashar's family made a fervent appeal to the philanthropist organisations and individuals of the country to come forward to save the life of Bashar who made invaluable services in the profession of journalism for over two decades.