Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia would go abroad for advance treatment as soon as possible although the destination is not finalised yet, her personal physician and the party’s standing committee member AZM Zahid Hossain said on Sunday.
‘BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will go abroad as soon as possible for advance treatment. But where would she go and get treatment from which hospital have not been finalised yet,’ Zhaid told reporters following a visit of National Institute of Opthalmology and Hospital where several students and people who were injured during the recent student-people uprising.
He also said that the physical condition of Khaleda Zia was now being monitored.
‘In due course, she will be taken abroad for treatment,’ he said.
Zahid said that more than 750 people, injured during the protest, received treatment in this hospital while many of them have returned home.
Many require long-term treatment, he said, adding that currently 11 patients are very critical here.
A day after Awami League president Sheikh Hasina’s fall amid student-people unprecedented uprising on August 5, Khaleda Zia was freed in an executive order.
Three-time former prime minister Khaleda Zia, 79, 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 in the same year, she was found guilty in another corruption case.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, on the condition that she would stay in her Gulshan house and would not leave the country.
Later, her sentence was suspended several times, for a duration of six months each time under the same conditions.
Khaleda Zia has been suffering from various ailments, including three blockages in her heart.
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