BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her residence from Evercare Hospital on Thursday evening, after five days of treatment and medical check-ups for various ailments.
“Khaleda Zia left the hospital around 4:45pm and reached her Gulshan residence Feroza at 6:19pm,” BNP chief’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan said.
On Saturday night, she was admitted to the hospital for some medical tests and required treatment.
Her medical team member Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said the BNP chief was kept in a cabin under close observation of doctors and her condition improved a little as she was given treatment as per the advice of her medical board.
The 77-year-old former prime minister has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, 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 last. Khaleda received treatment at the hospital six times since she was infected with Covid-19 in April 2021.
In November 2021, Khaleda Zia was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis.
On June 10 last, the BNP chief suffered a cardiac arrest due to a 95 per cent 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 Covid 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 at her Gulshan house and will not leave the country.
