Online Desk: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has was admitted to city’s Evercare Hospital for some medical tests on Wednesday. “Madam was admitted to the hospital around 8:10 pm as per the decision of the medical board,” said the BNP chief’s personal physician, Prof AZM Zahid Hossain. He said Khaleda needs to undergo some medical tests as new symptoms appear in her body. “So, she’ll have to stay in the hospital for a few days for these tests.”

The BNP chief left her Gulshan residence around 6:25pm and reached the hospital around 7:50pm. Doctors of the hospital advised Khaleda to get admitted to the hospital after checking her health condition. The BNP chief’s family sources said she was suffering from fever.

Earlier on June 13, the BNP chairperson was admitted to the same hospital after she suddenly fell sick with a fever and stomachache. Later, she underwent various medical examinations under the close supervision of her medical board at the hospital and received treatment there for five days.

Khaleda, a 77-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart and eye problems. Since her conditional release in 2020, the BNP chief has been receiving treatment at the hospital under a medical board headed by cardiologist Prof Shahabuddin Talukder.

In November 2021, Khaleda Zia was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. On June 10 last, the BNP chief suffered a heart attack due to a 95 percent 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’ imprisonment 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 coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she will stay in her Gulshan house and will not leave the country.