<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Evercare Hospital in the capital this (Wednesday) evening for health check-up.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Madam [Khaleda] will be taken  to Evercare Hospital in the evening for health check-ups as per the advice of her medical board,” Shamsuddin Didar, the BNP chief’s media wing member, told UNB.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said Khaleda will undergo some necessary medical tests at the hospital. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 78-year-old former prime minister has long been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and issues related to kidney, lung, heart, and eye.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier on March 31, the BNP chairpersons was admitted to the hospital and stayed there for two days for some pathological tests and regular examinations. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since her conditional release from jail 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;">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, reports UNB</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 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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Khaleda’s doctors have been recommending sending her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis in November 2021.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On October 26 last year, three US specialist doctors completed the hepatic procedure known as transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS procedure) to stop water accretion in Khaleda Zia’s stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd/fas</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div>