Khaleda admitted to Evercare for treatment

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital on Saturday night for some medical tests and required treatment.

Her medical team member Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said the BNP chief will undergo some more medical tests today(Sunday) as per the advice of her medical board.

The BNP chief reached the hospital around 6:45pm from her Gulshan residence. She was later admitted to the hospital as per doctors’ advice, he said.

Zahid said the medical board is expected to review the test reports and decide on the next course of her treatment.

Khaleda, a 77-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.

She visited the same hospital for health check-ups on February 27 last. Khaleda received treatment at the hospital six times since she was infected with Coronavirus in April 2021.

In November 2021, Khaleda Zia was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis.

On June 10 last, 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.

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