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Published: 15 Apr 2021 10:00 PM BdST
Updated: 16 Apr 2021 02:24 AM BdST
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will continue receiving treatment for COVID-19 at home as her doctors have ruled out hospitalisation following a CT scan. );
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“Her report is very good,” said Professor AZM Zahid Hossain, one of her personal physicians after the test at Evercare Hospital on Thursday night.
“We can clinically say that the findings in the report show minimum [risks]. She will undergo necessary treatment at home,” the doctor said.
A car carrying the former prime minister left her home in Gulshan for the hospital in Bashundhara around 9:20pm and returned around 10:50pm.Professor FM Siddiqui, who is heading the team of doctors treating Khaleda, confirmed that she underwent the test at the hospital.
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Khaleda taken to hospital for CT scan
Staff Correspondent | Published: 23:19, Apr 15,2021 | Updated: 00:56, Apr 16,2021
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, who has recently contacted COVID-19, is on her way to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Thursday for medical laboratory tests. New Age photo
Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia was taken to a hospital in the capital for a CT scan of her chest Thursday evening, six days after she had tested positive for COVID-19.
A car carrying Khaleda, also a former prime minister, entered Evercare Hospital along with two of the members of her personal staff at about 9:30pm, said her media wing members.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's physical condition is stable and she is asymptomatic, her doctor said yesterday, following news of her testing positive on Sunday. Her medical team said they were ready to hospitalise her if the situation arises. "Still, she is in good condition. We have full preparation. If we see any problem and think she needs to be admitted to a hospital, we
Fakhrul said that he would give updates on her health time to time.
One of Khaleda’s personal physicians told New Age that the BNP chairperson’s personal staff, Fatema Begum, guards and some other members at her Gulshan residence Firoza also tested positive for COVID-19 in the past few days.
Khaleda has been staying at the Gulshan residence since she was released from jail by the government on conditions for six months on an executive order on March 25, 2020 during the novel coronavirus outbreak.
She was initially jailed on February 8, 2018 for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.