Staff Reporter :
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia returned home on Wednesday night at 8:30 after receiving treatment in the Evercare Hospital in the city for nearly a month and a half since July 8.
“Madam (Khaleda Zia) has reached her Gulshan residence at at 8:30pm after discharging from the hospital in the evening as per the advice of the medical board,” said BNP Chairperson’s media wing member Shamsuddin Didar.
Quoting Khaleda Zia’s personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, Didar said a process is underway to send ailing BNP Chairperson abroad for advanced medical treatment.
The former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was admitted to the hospital in the capital six days after she had been discharged from the same hospital with various ailments.
A group of specialist doctors, led by Proffessor Dr. Shahabuddin Talukder, successfully installed a pacemaker in Khaleda Zia’s chest on June 23.
The former Prime Minister has long been battling various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and issues related to the kidney, lung, heart, and eyes.
Khaleda Zia’s physicians have been recommending sending her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis in November 2021.
On October 26 last year, three US specialist doctors completed the hepatic procedure known as the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS procedure) to stop water accretion in Khaleda Zia’s stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.
The BNP chief was placed in Old Dhaka Central Jail on February 8, 2018, after a special court sentenced her to five years in prison in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. On October 30, 2018, the High Court raised her punishment to 10 years. Later, she was convicted in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government was temporarily freed the former Prime Minister from jail after 776 days through an executive order, suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020 with conditions that she would stay in her Gulshan house and not leave the country.
On August 6 last, Khaleda Zia was completely freed by an order of the President under Article 49 of the Bangladesh Constitution, according to a gazette issued by the home ministry on August 6.
