Dhaka, April 22 -- Anu Muhammad, the former economics professor at Jahangirnagar University, has been transferred from Dhaka Medical College Hospital to the Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute after he was seriously injured while trying to step off a train in Dhaka's Khilgaon.

There, an 18-member medical team is being formed to oversee his treatment, says Health Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen.

"Last night I made the decision that a combined operation is needed for his injury," he told the media at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday. "That is why he has been relocated."

Muhammad, the member secretary of the National Committee on the Protection of Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, had been returning t...