Family sources say Khaleda Zia will be taken home after all the tests are done

BNP chief Khaleda Zia's condition is stable, according to her family and doctors at Evercare Hospital.

Shairul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP's media cell, on Sunday said: “After arriving at the hospital on Saturday night, several tests were done on Madam (Khaleda). She was also visited by a team of doctors who reviewed the test reports right away.”

Syed Sharmila Rahman, the wife of Khaleda Zia's late son Arafat Rahman Koko, is with the BNP chairperson at the hospital.

Khaleda Zia is undergoing treatment under the supervision of cardiologist Prof Sahabuddin Talukdar of Evercare Hospital. 

Professor AZM Zahid Hossain told reporters on Saturday night that it would take time to conduct some tests. “Doctors will review Begum Zia's test reports again on Sunday.”

Family sources said Khaleda Zia would be taken home after all the tests were done.

Former prime minister Khaleda Zia, 77, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and kidney, lung, heart and eye problems.

She visited the same hospital for medical check-ups on February 27. 

Khaleda received treatment at the hospital six times since she was infected with Covid in April 2021.

In November 2021, Khaleda Zia was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis.

On June 10 last year, the BNP chief suffered a heart attack due to a 95% 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 in jail 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 pandemic, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, on the condition that she would stay in her Gulshan home and not leave the country.