Khaleda responding to top-level treatment at Evercare ICU: Dr Zahid
“She is taking the treatment and she is responding as she did in the past,” he says
BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia is receiving the highest level of medical care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Evercare Hospital, her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid said tonight (10 December).
Talking to reporters outside the hospital, Dr Zahid said Khaleda Zia is still able to receive the treatment being provided by the doctors.
"She is taking the treatment and she is responding as she did in the past," he said, urging all not to pay heed to any rumours on social media regarding her health.
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Dr Zahid said local and foreign doctors are working together to ensure the best possible treatment for the former prime minister. "In medical terms, she is responding to the treatment being given," he said.
Dr Zahid said the medical board, which includes specialists from both Bangladesh and abroad, is working to ensure that Khaleda Zia receives all necessary treatment at Evercare Hospital.
He said she may be taken abroad if required, but it is not possible to say exactly when that might happen. "The time has not come yet to give a definite date."
Khaleda Zia has been receiving treatment at Evercare Hospital since 23 November and was moved to the Critical Care Unit on 27 November with multiple health complications.
A medical board led by cardiologist Professor Shahabuddin Talukder, and including specialists from Bangladesh, the UK, the USA, and China, is supervising her treatment.
Her daughter-in-law, Dr Zubaida Rahman, has been attending the medical board's meetings in person since returning to Dhaka on 5 December.
Earlier, on 8 January this year, Khaleda travelled to London. Upon arrival, she was admitted to the London Clinic, a private hospital, where she remained under the care of renowned specialists Prof Patrick Kennedy and Prof Jennifer Cross for 17 days.
From 25 January, she received treatment and stayed at the London residence of her eldest son Tarique. The BNP chief then returned to Dhaka on 6 May after four months in the UK.
