Online Desk: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will go to the capital’s Evercare Hospital for her health checkup today. The former prime minister will go to the hospital around 3:00pm, said AZM Zahid Hossain, Khaleda’s personal physician and also vice chairman of the party. The BNP chief last visited the hospital on August 22 last year.

The 77-year-old former prime minister has been suffering from liver cirrhosis and various other ailments. She suffered a heart attack last year and a stent was placed in her heart. She has low haemoglobin, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. The BNP chief was convicted and imprisoned in a corruption case in 2018. She was released in March 2020 under an executive order and on the condition that she would not leave the country and must receive medical treatment in the country.

Khaleda was admitted to Evercare Hospital six times since she was infected with Covid-19 in April 2021. Her family submitted several applications to the government seeking permission to send her to an advanced centre abroad for the treatment of her multiple health complications, but the government rejected it every time as she was convicted of corruption by the court in two cases.