Staff Reporter:
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned home on Wednesday night after receiving treatment at Evercare Hospital for 45 days.
“Madam (Khaleda) was discharged from the hospital in the evening as per the advice of the medical board,” said her media wing member Shamsuddin Didar, quoting her personal physician Dr. AZM Zahid Hossain.
He said the BNP chief left the hospital at 7pm and arrived home around 8:22 pm.
He said a process was underway to send ailing Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced medical treatment.
On July 8, Khaleda Zia, a former prime minister, was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital six days after she had been discharged from the same hospital with various ailments.
A group of specialist doctors, led by Prof Shahabuddin Talukder, successfully installed a pacemaker in Khaleda Zia’s chest on June 23.
Khaleda has long been battling various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and issues related to the kidney, lung, heart, and eyes.
Khaleda’s doctors have been recommending sending her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cir-rhosis in November 2021.
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.
