Staff Reporter:
BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia won’t be taken abroad for better treatment right now and the final decision would be taken when her physical condition improves, according to her medical board sources.
“The BNP chairperson will take treatment as she receives now for the time being,” Khaleda’s personal physician Prof Dr AZM Zahid Hossain told.
Replying to a question if there is any plan to take her abroad, he said that no decision has been taken yet.
The expert physicians had earlier advised Khaleda Zia, 79, to be taken to any of the three countries — USA, England and Germany– for her better treatment. Among the three countries, the United States is being given the highest priority by the BNP and Khaleda Zia’s family.
Because, 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.
However, Khaleda Zia’s medical board and BNP sources said which country would be chosen for Khaleda Zia mainly depends on her physical condition as she is not in the physical condition to travel for 10-15 hours straight at this moment. So, she might be taken to Thailand initially considering the airway distance. Then she might be taken to the USA subjected to the improvement of her physical condition.
Khaleda’s doctors have been recommending sending her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cir-rhosis in November 2021.
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