Bengali fiction writer and playwright Humayun Ahmed spends Pahela Baishakh in hospital

. bdnews24.com, New York : Bengali fiction writer and playwright Humayun Ahmed spent his Pahela Baishakh at a New York hospital for taking chemotherapy. Humayun is currently taking his 12th chemo that started on Friday.

“The date for the 12th chemo was fixed earlier and he had to be in hospital on the first day of Bengali New Year,” his wife Meher Afroz Shaon, who is with Humayun, told bdnews24.com.

Shaon said he would be back home by Monday after the chemo. Each chemo cycle takes around 48 hours. He has rented a house in Queens and currently staying with his family.

Humayun, also a filmmaker, went to New York on Sept 13 after he was diagnosed with colon cancer during a routine check-up in Singapore. He is undergoing treatment at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC), a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 in New York.

Born in Mymensingh in 1948, Humayun did his graduation from Dhaka University and later joined the university as a lecturer of chemistry but retired to become a fulltime writer and filmmaker.