Khaleda talks barely, say doctors
Khaleda Zia
Physicians in the capital’s Evercare Hospital treating opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chair Khaleda Zia on Thursday said that she barely talked and there was no improvement in her condition.
‘Her health condition has shown no change since early Tuesday and she talked very slowly,’ a member of Khaleda’s medical team said to New Age.
The doctor said that she, however, had not suffered any fresh internal bleeding since Monday midnight.
The former PM’s medical team on November 28 said that she, having been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and haemorrhage in the stomach, required advanced treatment abroad.
She needs treatment with the use of ‘transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt’ which is available only in few countries, they said.
Fakhruddin Mohammad Siddiqui, a member of Khaleda’s medical team, told a press briefing that saving her life without treatment with TIPS would be almost impossible.
The technology is available only in some advanced centres in the USA, the UK and Germany, he said.
As the physician said, TIPS is an artificial channel set up within the liver for establishing a link between the inflow portal vein and the outflow hepatic vein.
Khaleda, 76, was readmitted to Evercare Hospital on November 13, six days after she had returned home from the hospital.
On behalf of her family, Khaleda’s younger brother Shamim Iskander applied to the home ministry on November 11, urging the government to allow her to go abroad for better treatment.
On March 25, 2020, amid the Covid situation, the government released Khaleda Zia from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University suspending her jail sentences in two graft cases on conditions that she would take medical treatment at home and would not leave the country.
New Age
