BNP reiterates demand for Khaleda’s treatment abroad
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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday claimed that the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health conditions deteriorated and she needed advanced treatment abroad.
Fakhrul told this at a meeting organised by Dhaka South and North units of BNP in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka.
The meeting was organised to protest Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent remarks on Khaleda Zia over the Padma Bridge.
Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told a discussion meeting of Awami League that Khaleda Zia once had said that the Padma Bridge would collapse while in use as it was being constructed with patchworks.
“What should now be done to them? They should be taken to the Padma Bridge and thrown into the river to soak,” the prime minister said.
Khaleda Zia is now very sick and she will face a life-threat if she is denied advanced treatment abroad, Fakhrul said.
“We are calling you (govt) frequently to release Khaleda Zia. We are calling upon you once again from the rally to let her go abroad for treatment. Time is still adequate,” Fakhrul said.
Khaleda, a 76-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung and eye complications.
She was last admitted to Evercare Hospital on November 13 last year where she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis.
On February 1, she returned home after an 81-day stay in the hospital as she was suffering from internal bleeding caused by the liver cirrhosis.
Khaleda was sent to the Old Dhaka Central Jail as a lower court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in 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.
