BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital on Wednesday night.
“Madam (Khaleda) was brought to the hospital for some urgent tests, but now she has been admitted to the Critical Care Unit (CCU) as per the advice of the medical board,” her physician Prof AZM Zahid Hossain told reporters at around 9:30pm.
“The medical board will meet at night and decide the next course of action for her treatment,” he added.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was taken to Evercare Hospital for a health check-up.
Earlier on March 31, the BNP chairperson were admitted to the hospital and stayed there for two days for some pathological tests and regular examinations.
Since her conditional release from jail 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 Jail after 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 the condition that she stay in her Gulshan house and will not leave the country.
It has since been extended multiple times to keep her out of jail.
Khaleda’s doctors 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 transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS procedure) to stop water accretion in Khaleda’s stomach, chest, and bleeding in her liver.
