Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that the party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia was still facing health risk.
The former prime minster of Bangladesh has been admitted to the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the observation at a press conference at the party’s Gulshan office and said Khaleda Zia was facing serious heart and kidney problems.
Mirza Fakhrul said that members of her medical board said that better treatments for those problems were not sufficient in Bangladesh.
‘The medical experts are saying that she should go abroad for better treatments and we are saying this repeatedly,’ Fakhrul said.
On May 5, Khaleda Zia’s younger brother Shamim Eskander submitted an application to home minister Asaduzzaman Khan seeking permission to send Khaleda Zia, who tested positive for Covid-19 on April 11, abroad for better treatment.
After receiving the application the home ministry forwarded it to the law ministry for its opinion.
On May 9, after getting the law ministry’s opinion, the home minister told reporters that the government could not allow the application as Khaleda was a convict and that there was no instance of allowing a convict to go abroad for treatment.
The 74-year-old former PM was released from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University’s prison cell on March 25, 2020 on an executive order on conditions that she would take medical treatment at home and would not leave the country.
After Khaleda tested positive for Covid-19, she was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital on April 28 for some more tests as part of her follow-up medical check-up.
She has been undergoing treatment there as she is suffering from various post-Covid complications.
Fakhrul also demanded immediate release of BNP central leaders Aslam Chowdhury, Nipun Roy Chowdhury and others who were arrested before the Bangladesh visit of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on March 26.
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, vice chairman and father of Nipun, Nitai Roy Chowdhury also spoke at the press conference and demanded unconditional release of Nipun and others.
Advisory council member of party chairperson advocate Fazlur Rahman, law affair secretary Kaiser Kamal and lawyer of Nipun Masud Ahmed Talukder also spoke at the press conference.
Central leaders of the party Riaz Uddin Nosu, Taiful Islam Tipu, Syrul Kabir Khan attended the press conference.
