Since November 2021, when Khaleda was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, her physicians have advised moving her overseas.

After more than five months of treatment at Evercare Hospital for a variety of health issues, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia went home on Thursday January 11.

Sayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP media cell, stated that the BNP chief left the hospital at 5 p.m. and arrived at her Gulshan mansion around an hour later.

Khaleda was welcomed home by Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, and Selima Rahman, members of the party standing committee.

As per Dr. AZM Zahid Hossain, the party's vice-chairman and Khaleda's doctor, the BNP leader was driven home following the medical board's release from the hospital.

Dr. Zahid stated that all arrangements have been made for Khaleda to receive the required care at her Gulshan home by the medical board.

She suddenly became ill and was sent to the Evercare Hospital on August 9 of last year. The BNP Chief has been getting treatment there ever since for a range of illnesses.

The 78-year-old former prime minister has long battled several illnesses, such as diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye issues; she also has diabetes and liver cirrhosis.


The transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) technique was performed on October 26 by three US specialty physicians to halt the bleeding in Khaleda Zia's liver and the accumulation of water in her stomach and chest.


After evaluating Khaleda's health and test results, the US physicians—Hamid Rabb, Christos Georgiades, and James P. A. Hamilton from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine—travelled to Bangladesh on October 25 and decided to finish the TIPS surgery.


TIPS is a treatment that includes connecting the portal veins to nearby, lower-pressure blood arteries by inserting a stent (tube). This helps lessen bleeding and fluid buildup by releasing the pressure on blood passing through the sick liver. Additionally, a TIPS improves portal hypertension, or elevated blood pressure in the portal vein that frequently develops in conjunction with liver cirrhosis.

Since November 2021, when Khaleda was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, her physicians had advised moving her overseas.


The family of the BNP leader also requested authorization from the government on several times, but the Law Minister said that Khaleda was released on terms that suspended her sentence in corruption charges, thus there is no way for her to receive treatment overseas.

The BNP leader has been undergoing treatment at the hospital since her conditional release from jail in 2020, under the supervision of a medical board led by cardiologist Prof. Shahabuddin Talukder.

On February 8, 2018, Khaleda was convicted to five years in prison by a lower court in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. She was then sent to the Old Dhaka Jail. She was later found guilty in the same year in another corruption case.

On March 25, 2020, the government issued an executive order suspending Khaleda Zia's sentence in the coronavirus outbreak, subject to her staying in her Gulshan home and not leaving the nation. Since then, it has been repeatedly extended to keep her out of jail.

 


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