BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is scheduled to go to the hospital on Monday afternoon for a regular medical examination.
She will be taken to to Evercare Hospital after 3pm from her residence in Gulshan, BNP chairperson's press wing member Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the development to the media.
Khaleda Zia's personal physician AZM Zahid Hossain said that the medical board formed for her treatment adviced to schedule the appointment.
The former prime minister was sent to the Old Dhaka Central Jail as a lower court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018.
Later, she was found guilty in another corruption case the same year.
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the government temporarily freed Khaleda from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she will stay at her Gulshan home and not leave the country.