Taslima admitted to AIIMS for 'drug effect'

New Delhi/Kolkata: Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for 'suspected drug effect', doctors attending to her said on Tuesday.
"Taslima Nasreen was brought to our hospital on the night of January 26. She was admitted after initial investigation found that she was suffering from suspected drug effect," YK Gupta, chief spokesperson of AIIMS, said.
"We are carrying out a number of tests on her. At this stage, we cannot reveal anything more on the drug effect angle. It could be the side-effect of some drug as well," Gupta added.
He said, the 45-year-old author was also "complaining of uneasiness and hyper tension".
"A group of doctors is taking care of her, and her condition has improved. She may be discharged from the hospital in a couple of days," Gupta added.
The writer, who had angered some Muslims through her writings, was forced to leave Kolkata after a protest by a Muslim organisation against her continuing stay in India turned violent Nov 21 last year.
She was taken first to Jaipur and then to New Delhi by the central government and has since then been kept in confinement at a safe house.
Her friends in Kolkata said they were worried about her well being after they failed to reach her by phone or email.
"We are extremely worried over state of her health. Since Jan 26, we could not get in touch with her. Today, we read a small news item that she has been taken to AIIMS for a health check-up," Sumitavo Ghoshal, a close friend of the writer, said in Kolkata.
Nasreen said recently that she is feeling "very depressed" as she is "forced to live out of Kolkata after being thrown out from the city I had been living in".
"I don't want to lose my faith in Indian secularism. I hope that I will be allowed to go back home," she said in response to a web-chat question.
"I want to go to my home Kolkata where my entire world awaits me," Nasreen had said.