Khaleda Zia, the chairperson of the BNP, is scheduled to visit Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Monday night for a medical examination.

According to BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan, “Madam (Khaleda) will be taken to Evercare Hospital in the evening for health check-ups on the advice of her medical board,” he told UNB.

Khaleda will go through some required medical testing at the hospital, he said.

Six days after being released from the same hospital with a number of illnesses, Khaleda Zia was admitted to the capital’s Evercare Hospital on July 8.

A group of specialist doctors, led by Prof Shahabuddin Talukder, successfully installed the pacemaker in Khaleda Zia’s chest on June 23.

Khaleda has long been battling various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and issues related to kidneys, lungs, heart and eyes.

The BNP chief’s doctors have long been recommending sending her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis in November 2021.

On October 26 last year, three US specialist doctors completed a hepatic procedure known as the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS procedure) to stop water accretion in Khaleda Zia’s stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.

She was placed in Old Dhaka Central Jail on February 8, 2018, after a court sentenced her to five years in prison in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.

On October 30, 2018, the High Court raised her punishment to 10 years.

Later, she was also convicted in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Amid the Covid-19 outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail after 776 days through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, on the condition that she would stay in her Gulshan house and not leave the country.

On August 6, Khaleda Zia was completely freed by an order of President Mohammed Shahabuddin.

The president passed the order under Article 49 of the constitution, according to a gazette issued by the home ministry.

Article 49 states that the president shall have power to grant pardons, reprieves and respites and to remit, suspend or commute any sentence passed by any court, tribunal or other authority.