BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent some medical tests at Evercare Hospital in the city on Monday, as a follow-up after coronary angioplasty.
“Madam (Khaleda) was taken to the hospital for some medical tests as per the advice of the medical board. She underwent Echo, ECG, USG, X-ray and some other blood tests,” said her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain.
Talking to reporters in front of the BNP chief’s Gulshan office, he also said Khaleda was supposed to undergo follow-up tests within four-to-six weeks of her angioplasty, that was done on June 11 - almost 10 weeks back.
“We could not do it at the right time," Zahid confessed. "So, she was taken to the hospital for those tests today (Monday) as a routine check-up on an urgent basis. Some tests were conducted today while some other tests will be done later after reviewing the reports."
The physician is hopeful of receiving all the test reports by Wednesday.
Zahid said Khaleda has been receiving treatment at her residence under the supervision of the medical board formed for the purpose.
He said the medical board members will also visit the BNP chief further and determine the next course of her treatment after examining the latest test reports.
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Dr Zahid said Khaleda Zia has liver, lung, arthritis, diabetes, hypertension and some other health problems. “There is no improvement in these problems.”
Stating that the BNP chief had three blocks in her arteries, he noted that only a stent was placed in her left coronary artery, opening up a passage that had recorded 95 percent blockage in one of the arteries. “The two other blocks remain in her left and middle arteries.”
He said the medical board again opined that the BNP chief’s treatment at a multidisciplinary advanced medical centre abroad is very urgent, due to her multiple chronic diseases and health problems.
Earlier, the BNP chief reached the hospital from her Gulshan residence around 4:45pm and underwent the medical tests. She left the hospital around 7:10pm and reached her residence at 7:55pm.
Khaleda, a 77-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments.
On June 10, 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.
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, attaching the conditions that she would stay at her Gulshan house, and would not leave the country.