Taslima Nasreen,the controversial Bangladeshi writer who has been living ‘holed up’ somewhere in New Delhi, charged the authorities on Wednesday with administering wrong drugs to cure her from stress and hypertension.  

In a conversation with Deccan Herald here that was preceded by a news conference in the Press Club on her ‘detention’, she alleged that the doctors deputed by the government administered wrong medicines for ‘suspected drug effects’ and it was only after her admission to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on January 26 last that she could possibly regain her composure. “I was suffering from extreme stress symptoms that might have caused hyper-tension; I was feeling uneasiness in the chest,” she said. “But no cardiologist was called to treat me. Instead, I was taken to a place where a doctor deputed by the government gave me wrong drugs”.

After Taslima fainted immediately upon taking the medicine, she was rushed to the AIIMS and admitted to CCU. “The doctors saved me there,” Nasreen, a physician herself, said. She is not yet stable and has no liberty to consult a doctor of her own choice, she complained. “My blood pressure is fluctuating. I am not sure what to do. A wrong news that my visa has been extended is also doing the rounds,” she said.

Reports quoting Dr Y.K Gupta,chief spokesperson of AIIMS,said that Taslima was brought to the hospital at night on January 26. After initial investigation, it was found that she was suffering from suspected drug effect as the writer was complaining of uneasiness.

The exiled author, who was recently conferred the Prix Simone de Beauvoir by the French government, was denied permission to receive the award from French President Nicolas Sarkozy when he visited India last week. 
After this, she felt very `depressed’, her friends here claim. Taslima has been pleading with the Centre and the Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee government to give consent to her return to the city she considers her second home after Bangladesh.