<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka early Tuesday (June 13, 2023) as she fell sick.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BNP chief left her Gulshan residence around 1:20am and reached the hospital around 1:40am, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said she was admitted to the Evercare Hospital as per the decision of her medical board.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Madam (Khaleda) was taken to the hospital as she fell ill suddenly,” said BNP's health affairs secretary Dr Rafiqul Islam.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Party sources said Khaleda’s personal doctors, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and some senior leaders went to her residence at midnight after hearing the news of her illness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, she was taken to the hospital as per the suggestion of the medical board formed earlier for her treatment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BNP chief’s younger brother Shamim Eskandar drove her to the Hospital in a&nbsp; private car.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She last went to the same hospital on April 29 last and received treatment there for five days.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BNP chief received treatment at the hospital seven times since she was infected with Coronavirus in April, 2021.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Khaleda, a 78-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart and eye problems.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On June 10 last year, 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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also Read: Khaleda Zia under close observation at Evercare, says her physician Zahid</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Doctors also found two more blocks in her blood vessels, but they could not remove those due to her health complications.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she will stay in her Gulshan house and will not leave the country. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>