Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam, who was critically injured due to an attempt on her life, does not need to be sent abroad for treatment now, said said Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik.

The minister came up with the observation after visiting the UNO at the hospital on Sunday morning.

“It seems to me that her (Wahida) treatment is possible at home as doctors at the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital giving her best treatment,” he said.

Mentioning that the UNO is having a little trouble moving the right side of her body because of her head injury, the minister expects it will recover within some days.

“The 72-hour observation by the doctors at the hospital will end on Monday morning and no symptom of any infection has been reported yet. The patient is undergoing treatment under good management and everything is going well. Everything needed for her treatment will be provided,” he said.

The minister went on saying, “UNO Wahida talked to me and I think her condition is better now. Eight doctors successfully operated on her injured parts for two and a half hours and the right side of her injured body is still paralysed. Doctors said it will be cured with physical therapy.”

Earlier, doctors of the hospitals said that the condition of Wahida is now stable.

“She is still at the intensive care unit (ICU),” said Dr Badrul Alam, joint director of the hospital.

They will observe her condition till Monday morning. If the condition remains stable, she will be shifted to Step Down Unit (SDU).

A medical board will take further decision on Sunday, he added.

Wahida Khanam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Ghoraghat, was seriously injured in an attack by miscreants at her home on the Upazila Parishad premises early Thursday.

Her father Omar Ali was also injured in the gruesome attack. They were taken to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital.

Later, the UNO was airlifted from Rangpur to Dhaka by a Bangladesh Air Force MI-171SH helicopter.

She was admitted to the National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, Dhaka.