“Hasina's illness”

I totally agree with Mr. Hoque (Jan 13) that Hasina should not be sent abroad for treatment at the cost of the public exchequer. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh with far worse illnesses than Sheikh Hasina's, some of whom are the only bread-earner of the family. Therefore, if the caretaker administration wants to spend public money on treating patients, those poor people should be treated first, not Sheikh Hasina or Khaleda Zia. Besides, why do they need to go abroad? Some of the best family doctors and hospital specialists in the UK are actually from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. So if Sheikh Hasina is looking for good doctors, luckily, she is in the right country. Whichever way you look at it, there is absolutely no reason for spending precious public money like this. We have other urgent, life-threatening issues that are in desperate need of some government money.