BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned to her Gulshan residence in Dhaka after five months of treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital.
She reached her residence Firoza around 7 pm. Earlier, she left the hospital for home around 5 pm.
BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter.
Earlier on August 9 last year, the former prime minister was admitted to the hospital for some medical tests.
She has been suffering from arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, and eye issues for a long time. She was diagnosed with Covid-19 and spent 81 days in hospital care in 2021.
She also experienced bleeding in the digestive tract and liver cirrhosis later in November.
Khaleda Zia was convicted in two graft cases and taken to jail in 2018. In April 2020, in light of the Covid pandemic, the government granted a request from her family for a conditional temporary release from jail for “humanitarian reasons”.
She has since stayed at her Gulshan home under the care of her personal doctors and has had limited interaction with others.
Her family petitioned the government several times for permission to take her abroad for medical treatment. The government repeatedly denied the request, claiming it is impossible under the current law that allows her to stay out of jail.
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