Md Alamgir Khandaker has been suffering from heart ailment for last few months.

Addressing a press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity Auditorium, he said a cardiac surgeon has prescribed for him an immediate CABG surgery that requires a few lakh taka.

"The monthly income that I have from an ordinary job in a private company is spent for the survival of my 4-member family. So it is not possible for me to bear the cost of the treatment," he said.

Alamgir, a resident of 1202, Strand Road, Bondor, Chittagong, is now staying in Dhaka for his operation.

He fought in sector three during the liberation war in 1971.