Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Wednesday visited the US Embassy in Dhaka to give her biometric fingerprint for visa.
Upon her arrival at the embassy, its officials, including acting ambassador welcomed the BNP chairperson.
Khaleda was accompanied by her personal physicians, BNP Standing Committee member Professor AZM Zahid Hossain and Mohammad Mamun, the party鈥檚 organising secretary Shama Obaid and her private secretary ABM Abdus Sattar.
Zahid Hossain said Khaleda Zia might have to go to the USA for better treatment and that is why she went to the embassy to provide biometric fingerprint.
Khaleda Zia, also former prime minister, 79, has been suffering from various ailments for a long time.
Although she was being treated at Evercare Hospital, the medical board recommended she get better treatment from a multidisciplinary centre.
In view of this, Begum Khaleda Zia is preparing to go to London first and then to the United States, according to her physicians.
