Khaleda back home after 5-day hospital stay

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her residence today after a five-day stay in hospital. AZM Zahid Hossain, Khaleda's personal physician, said the medical board of the former premier scrutinised all the test results and decided to continue her treatment at home. The BNP chief was taken to Evercare Hospital on Apr 29 for medical tests and was later admitted.

The 77-year-old former prime minister has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and 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. 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 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.

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