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Khaleda Zia likely to return home from hospital this evening

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to return home on Tuesday evening after undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka for 10 days.

BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter to Jago News.

He said Khaleda Zia may return home from Evercare Hospital in Dhaka after 5pm. 

Earlier on June 22, Khaleda Zia was admitted to the hospital and a pacemaker was implanted in her heart. 

The 78-year-old former prime minister has long been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and issues related to kidney, lung, heart, and eye.

She was sent to the old Dhaka jail after a lower court had sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later in the same year, she was found guilty in another corruption case.

Amid the Coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with the condition that she stay in her Gulshan house and not leave the country. That has since been extended multiple times to keep her out of jail.