The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, returned home from Evercare Hospital in the capital on Thursday after her health check-ups as she was taken to the hospital on Wednesday evening for her medical tests.
The 78-year-old former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, left the hospital for her Gulshan residence at around 8:20pm, said her media wing member Shamsuddin Didar.
He said that the BNP chairperson underwent several tests at the hospital on the advice of her medical board.
The former prime minister has long been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and other complications related to kidney, lung, heart, and eye.
Earlier on 31 March, the BNP chairperson was admitted to the hospital and stayed there for two days for some pathological tests and regular examinations.
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 professor Shahabuddin Talukder.
Khaleda was sent to the Old Dhaka Jail after a lower court sentenced her to five years鈥� 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 Covid-19 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 would stay at her Gulshan house and not leave the country.
The order has been extended multiple times to keep her out of jail.
Khaleda鈥檚 doctors have been recommending sending her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis in November 2021.
On 26 October 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鈥檚 stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.
