Khaleda brought to jail after medical tests

Staff Correspondent: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was brought to Dhaka Old Central Jail on Nazimuddin Road in the capital after the conclusion of her medical tests at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Saturday.

A black Pajero jeep carrying Khaleda left BSMMU around 1.33pm amid tight security.

Earlier, she was taken to the BSMMU from the jail at 11.30am for medical check-up.

After she reached the hospital, she was offered a wheelchair to go to cabin No. 512 of the Cabin Block of the hospital but she refused and walked to the lift.

Two members of a medical board earlier formed by the government and her personal physician examined her health.

Later, the doctors suggested conducting some medical tests, including x-ray on her knee and two hands and blood test.

After the x-ray in Radiology and Imaging department and blood test, she was taken back to the jail.

Khaleda Zia fell sick in the jail on March 29 and postponed a scheduled meeting with its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

On April 1, the government formed a medical team with four professors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital to examine her health condition and ensure her treatment in the jail.

On February 8 last, a special court here sentenced Khaleda to five years' rigorous imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.


risingbd/Dhaka/April 7, 2018/Maksud/AI