Khaleda Zia again transferred to cabin from CCU

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, who is now undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital, has been shifted to cabin again from the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) on Monday (September 18) morning.

Shairul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP’s media cell, confirmed this to the media this morning.

Quoting BNP chairperson’s medical board member Professor Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, Shairul Kabir said, “The BNP chairperson has been shifted back to the cabin in the morning at the advice of her medical board”.

Earlier, Khaleda Zia was transferred to the CCU at midnight as per the recommendation of the medical board.

The 78-year-old former prime minister has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems.

Since her conditional release in 2020, the BNP chief has been receiving treatment at the hospital under a medical board headed by cardiologist Prof Shahabuddin Talukder.

Khaleda was sent to the Old Dhaka Jail after 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 released 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.