Khaleda Zia is now well: BNP

Staff Reporter :
The health condition of the BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, is now stable. She was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital early Tuesday.

Citing her physicians BNP sources said that Khaleda Zia is now doing well.

Quoting doctors and BNP’s Vice-Chairman Zahid Hossain, the party’s media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan on Wednesday said, “The health condition of Madam Khaleda Zia has been improved slightly.”

The 78-year-old former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was admitted to the hospital as early Tuesday as she fell sick.

The BNP chief has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems since long.

She received treatment at the same hospital six times since she was infected with Coronavirus in April 2021. In November 2021, Begum Khaleda Zia was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis.

Meanwhile, the BNP Chairperson 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.

During the coronavirus pandemic, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she would stay at her Gulshan house and would not leave the country for any purpose.