BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was rushed to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka following a sudden deterioration in her health, based on the decision of her medical board, early on Monday.
BNP Vice Chairman and Khaleda Zia’s personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain confirmed that the former prime minister had been admitted to the hospital immediately upon arrival.
Khaleda Zia was currently receiving treatment in a cabin equipped with CCU facilities under the close supervision of her medical board, Shairul Kabir Khan from the BNP's media cell said in the afternoon quoting Dr Zahid.
The party's media cell reported that senior leaders, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, had visited Khaleda Zia at the hospital.
The latest hospitalization comes less than a week after her return home from the same hospital following 10 days of treatment there.
The BNP chief went to her Gulshan residence on July 2 evening.
A pacemaker was implanted in her heart at the hospital on June 23 after she was taken there in the afternoon the previous day.
On October 27 last year, Khaleda Zia, who suffers from liver cirrhosis, was operated on by three doctors from the United States.
The 79-year-old politician suffers from various other complex diseases including diabetes and arthritis.
