Khaleda Undergoes Medical Tests at Evercare Hospital

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent various medical examinations under close supervision of her medical board at Evercare Hospital of the city's Bashundhara area on Tuesday, reports UNB.

Her personal physician Professor AZM Zahid Hossain said, “Madam's treatment is going on under the supervision of her medical board led by Professor Shahabuddin Talukder.”

Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital around 1:30pm after she fell sick last night.

The BNP chief left her Gulshan residence around 1:20 am and reached the hospital around 1:40 am, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

He said she was admitted to the hospital as per the decision of her medical board.

She last went to the same hospital on April 29 and received treatment there for five days.

The BNP chief received treatment at the hospital seven times since she was infected with Coronavirus in April, 2021.

Khaleda, a 78-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart and eye problems.

Since her conditional release in 2020, the BNP chief has been receiving treatment at the hospital under a medical board headed by cardiologist Prof Shahabuddin Talukder.

On June 10 last year, the BNP chief suffered a heart attack due to a 95 percent block in her left artery and a stent was placed there by removing the blockage at the same hospital the following day.

Doctors also found two more blocks in her blood vessels, but they could not remove those due to her health complications.

Khaleda was sent to the Old Dhaka Central Jail as a lower court sentenced her to five years' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later, she was found guilty in another corruption case the same year.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she will stay in her Gulshan house and will not leave the country.