Dhaka: Popular Bangladeshi actress Parveen Sultana Diti is recovering from illness after being treated at the Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (MIOT) at Chennai in India.

Diti was suffering from brain tumour and went under an operation at MIOT on 29 July. She again became ill after her return to Bangladesh and in November again went under an operation in India and was declared out of danger. But her physical condition deteriorated recently and she was being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the MIOT.

Bangladesh Director Association secretary general Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar, quoting doctor, said, ‘Diti has been shifted to a ward of the hospital from the ICU and she is gradually recovering from her illness.’