Medical board reviewing Khaleda’s health condition

The 10-member medical board, formed to ensure the treatment of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, sat in a meeting on Saturday at Evercare Hospital to review her health condition.

“The meeting of the medical board began around 11:10am to review the medical reports and health condition of Khaleda Zia,” said her media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will brief the media on Khaleda’s health condition at her Gulshan office around 3:00pm.

On 28 April 2021, a 10-member medical board, headed by Prof Shahabuddin Talukder, was formed for the treatment of Khaleda at the Evercare Hospital and the same medical board will now oversee her treatment.

Khaled Zia will be kept in observation at CCU for 72 hours, said a BNP leader.

Khaleda Zia has long been suffering from various critical diseases, including heart, liver and kidney complications.

Earlier, Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital in the early hours of Saturday as she suddenly fell ill.

The BNP chief left her Gulshan residence for the hospital at 2:55amand was admitted there at 3:15am.

Hearing the news of Khaleda's illness, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir rushed to her Gulshan residence and later went to the hospital.

Coming out of the hospital around 4:30am, Fakhrul said after some primary tests, the doctors found that she has cardiac problems.

“Madam’s condition is stable now. How complicated her problem is can be confirmed after she undergoes different tests, especially an angiogram,” he said.

The 76-year-old was last admitted to Evercare on November 13 last year where she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis.

On February 1, Khaleda returned home after an 81-day stay at the hospital as she was suffering from internal bleeding caused by liver cirrhosis.

The former prime minister 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 Covid-19 pandemic, the government temporarily freed Khaleda from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she will stay at her Gulshan home and not leave the country.