Shawdesh Desk:

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia is going will return home on Wednesday evening from the capital’s Evercare Hospital after staying there for three days for medical tests.

‘The medical board has decided to discharge Khaleda Madam from the hospital,’ said BNP’s media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

He said the medical board would hold a meeting in the afternoon to review all the test reports of the BNP chairperson and her health condition before discharging her from the hospital.

Sayrul said Khaleda is likely to leave the hospital for her Gulshan residence around 5:00pm.

Earlier on Sunday night, Khaleda was admitted to Evercare Hospital for some more medical tests, six days after she had several required tests at the same hospital.

Earlier on August 22, Khaleda underwent Echo, ECG, USG, X-ray and blood tests, as a follow-up after coronary angioplasty.

Reviewing the reports of those tests, the medical board recommended admitting the BNP chief to the hospital for some more tests.

Khaleda, a 77-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis.

On June 10, the BNP chief suffered a heart attack due to a 95 per cent block in her left artery and a stent was placed there by removing the blockage at the same hospital the following day.

Khaleda spent some time in 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 from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, on conditions that she would stay at her Gulshan house, and would not leave the country.

The BNP chief was admitted to Evercare Hospital six times since she was infected with Covid-19 in April 2021.

Khaleda’s 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 has rejected it every time as she was convicted of corruption by the court in two cases.