Bangladesh, July 3 : Opposition BNP Chairperson and former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence after being discharged from hospital where a pacemaker was implanted on her, a party spokesperson said.
Khaled, who spent nine days in the Evercare Hospital here, was released on Tuesday evening, a Dhaka Tribune report said on Wednesday.
BNP media cell member Shamsuddin Didar said a pacemaker was implanted in the BNP chief’s heart on June 23.
”BNP chairperson’s physical condition is now stable after the pacemaker implantation,” Khaleda’s personal physician, AZM Zahid Hossain said.
Doctors will continue to provide her with treatment at home as before. Earlier, on October 27 last year, Khaleda Zia, who was suffering from liver cirrhosis, was operated on by three doctors from the United States.
The 79-year-old leader suffers from various complex diseases, including diabetes, arthritis and heart disease, the report said.
Since her release from jail in 2020, the BNP chief has been frequently receiving treatment at a hospital under the medical board led by cardiologist Prof Shahabuddin Talukder.
Khaleda was sentenced to five years in prison for corruption in the Zia Orphanage Trust case and later found guilty in another corruption case in 2018.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with the condition that she stay in her Gulshan house and not leave the country. That has since been extended multiple times to keep her out of jail.
On October 26, last year, three US specialist doctors successfully completed the Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) procedure to prevent water accretion in Khaleda Zia’s stomach and chest, and liver bleeding. (Agencies)
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