The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence on Tuesday following 10 days of treatment at the Evercare Hospitals in the city.
Her personal physician AZM Zahid Hossain told reporters that as the former prime minister Khaleda Zia鈥檚 health is now almost stable, she was shifted to her residence from the hospital.
He also said that physicians would continue 79-year-old Khaleda Zia鈥檚 treatment at the residence as they usually do.
Khaleda Zia has been suffering from heart ailments beforehand, with three blockages. As her health condition deteriorated in the early hours of June 22, she was rushed to Evercare Hospital, the physician said.
He said that a pacemaker was fitted in Khaleda Zia鈥檚 heart at the hospital on June 23.
She is also suffering from arthritis, liver and lungs complications while she has high diabetes.
Since her conditional release from prison in 2020, the BNP chief has been receiving medical care at the hospital under the supervision of a medical board headed by cardiologist Professor Shahabuddin Talukder.
Khaleda鈥檚 doctors have been advising to send her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis in November 2021.
On October 26 last year, three US specialist doctors completed a hepatic procedure known as trans jugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS procedure) to stop water accumulation in Khaleda鈥檚 stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.
Khaleda was sent to the old Dhaka jail after a lower court had sentenced her to five years imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later in the same year, she was found guilty in another corruption case.
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 not leave the country. That has since been extended multiple times to keep her out of jail.
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