Iconic poet Al Mahmud has been hospitalised after his health condition deteriorated, his Personal Secretary Abid Azam told Bangla Tribune on Saturday (Feb 9).
The ailing poet has been admitted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at the Ibne Sina Hospital in Dhanmondi.
“His condition is critical. We ask everyone to pray for him,” Azam said.
Journalist Basir Jamal told Bangla Tribune, “Poet Al Mahmud has been kept at the CCC as his condition deteriorated significantly.”
82-year-old Mahmud, who is also a language movement veteran, has been suffering from various old age complications.
Al Mahmud was born at Mourail village in Brahmanbaria in 1936.