Khaleda returns home from hospital

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence today evening after receiving treatment for four days at Evercare Hospital in the city.

"Madam was discharged from the hospital as per the decision of the medical board. The board took the decision after reviewing her medical test reports. Now she will be treated at home," said her personal physician AZM Zahid Hossain.

The BNP chief left the hospital at 6:35pm and reached home at 7:50pm, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

She was admitted to Evercare Hospital early Tuesday as she suddenly fell sick with a fever and stomachache. Later, she underwent various medical examinations under the close supervision of her medical board at the hospital in the city's Bashundhara area.

Khaleda, 78, has long 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.

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.

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