The Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists demanded the government send Sen abroad for medical treatment on 27 October 2003 after he had suffered stroke and was admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. Tariqul Islam, Minister of Information, and Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, visited him in the hospital. He was sent to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore for treatment. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, M Morshed Khan, and the ambassador of Bangladesh to Singapore, Munshi Faiz Ahmed, visited him at the hospital.
