Azam Khan passes away

Admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:10:14 +0000

Body to be taken to Shaheed Minar Monday morning, burial in the afternoon
The country’s Pop Guru Azam Khan passed away Sunday morning at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) after a prolonged fight with cancer. He was 62.
Khan suffered a massive cardiac arrest around 9:30am and his life support system was taken off at around 10:20am, Brig Gen Mehboobul Haque, commandant of Dhaka CMH, told The Daily Star.
The freedom fighter, who was suffering from oral cancer, was admitted to Square Hospital on May 22. He was given life support later as his condition deteriorated.
With his health condition being unimproved, Azam Khan was moved to Dhaka CMH June 1 night.
Since then, the CMH doctors were continuing the treatment prescribed by Square Hospital physicians.
His condition was a little better on Saturday and he tried to communicate with doctors with gesture, the commandant said.
Azam Khan was undergoing treatment under the supervision of a medical board formed by CMH with consultant physician Maj Gen Rabiul Hossain as its head.
After detecting the cancer, the legendary singer was flown to Singapore on July 14 last year for better treatment. He returned home after treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
Azam Khan left behind his two daughters and one son to mourn at his death.
Fakir Alamgir, his longtime singer friend with whom Azam Khan began Gano Sangeet in the ’60, said the Pop Guru received financial assistance from the singers and his fans after he became sick last year but he was not properly evaluated.
During the tumultuous days of 1971 Liberation War, the Pop Guru inspired people to fight against the Pakistani regime with his songs. He participated in the Liberation War as an active guerrilla freedom fighter in sector No-2.
Born on February 28, 1950, Azam Khan was brought up at his Kamalapur ancestral residence, family sources said.
Awami League joint secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif, who went to the CMH after hearing the death news, told media that Azam Khan’s body will be taken to Shaheed Minar Monday morning where people will show tribute to him.
He will be buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals graveyard after his namaz-e-Janaza at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Monday afternoon, he added.

Courtesy of Star Online Report

Azam Khan on life support

Admin — Sat, 28 May 2011 09:22:47 +0000

Pop guru and freedom fighter Azam Khan has been on life support at the city’s Square Hospital since yesterday morning.
Dr Kamruzzaman Chowdhury of the hospital told reporters that Azam’s condition is very critical as his lungs were not functioning.
He said that since Azam returned home from Singapore without taking full course of radio therapy, his oral cancer spread to other parts of the body. Several tumours were detected in his different organs including his lungs.
Ima Khan, daughter of Azam, said, “We were making preparation to get him to Singapore again but over the last few days his condition deteriorated. He was admitted to the hospital on May 22 with severe hand and shoulder pain.”
Sixty-two-year-old pop legend Azam Khan went to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore in mid-July last year for better treatment.

Courtesy of The Daily Star

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