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Khaleda to be taken to hospital this afternoon

UNB . Dhaka
09 Aug 2023 13:49:41 | Update: 09 Aug 2023 17:13:00
Khaleda to be taken to hospital this afternoon
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia — File Photo

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be taken to Evercare Hospital on Wednesday afternoon as she fell sick again.

"Madam (Khaleda) will be taken to Evercare Hospital around 5pm as fell sick,” BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB.

He said she may undergo some tests at the hospital.

The BNP chief's family sources said she is suffering from fever, and she will be taken to the hospital as per the decision of her medical board.

Earlier on June 13, the BNP chairperson was admitted to the same hospital as she suddenly fell sick with a fever and stomachache.

Later, she underwent various medical examinations under the close supervision of her medical board at the hospital and received treatment there for five days.

Khaleda, a 78-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.

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 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.

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