Khaleda has no post-Covid complications
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia currently does not have any post-Covid complications, but she is still at risk because of her old age, the party said yesterday.
"The latest statement from the medical board formed to treat madam [Khaleda] shows that she is doing much better if we go by the post-Covid parameters," BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a press conference at Khaleda's Gulshan office.
"There are, however, some issues which are worrying. One is that her heart and kidney problems are acute. The medical board at Evercare Hospital is concerned about them. Hospitals in Bangladesh are not enough for her treatment," he said.
"Experts have repeatedly said that she [Khaleda] needs advanced treatment… We keep saying that too. "
Asked whether the BNP chairperson, now 76, would go to court seeking treatment abroad, Fakhrul said, "I have said it before. We have answered such questions before. Unfortunately, our biggest loss has been in court. The damage has been done in the court."
"The court has done extreme injustice to Madam Khaleda Zia. No law can punish her in any way. We have to think carefully before going to the court," Fakhrul also said.
Khaleda was admitted to Evercare Hospital on April 27. She tested Covid-19 positive on April 14 at her home in Gulshan.
She tested Covid-19 negative on May 19.
Fakhrul yesterday blamed the government's "inactiveness" for the surge in Covid-19 transmission in the districts along the border.
"Experts had warned that the Covid situation would turn serious in the bordering areas and we also talked about it, but the government did not take any steps," he said.
Alleging that people in those districts are suffering due to poor medical facilities, Fakhrul said the same things happened in West Bengal of India. "Even after that the government here seems reluctant to protect the people.
"You are protecting those people… thieves and robbers … this is very unfortunate," he added.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government on March 25 last year freed Khaleda from jail through an executive order suspending her jail sentences in two graft cases.
The BNP claims both the cases are politically motivated.
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