Khaleda Zia is now well: Jail doctor

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Dhaka: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who reportedly fell sick yesterday, is now well, said physician at the old Central Jail.

Doctor Mahmudul Hasan, who is now performing as the regular physician of the BNP chief in Jail, said: “The former prime minister is completely okay now and she is taking her meals as per the routine.”

“She is under regular medical check-up and I visit her almost every day. She has some physical complications due to her age but she is not unwell. Rather, her health condition is sound,” he added.

The physicians of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday went to perform regular medical check-ups on her as she was reportedly feeling unwell at the old central jail on Nazimuddin Road in the capital.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said Khaleda Zia suddenly started feeling unwell. “So, her doctors will visit her to perform regular health check-ups.”

A special court on February 8 handed down five-year imprisonment to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after convicting her in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

Khaleda’s son Tarique Rahman and four others have also been sentenced to 10 years in jail in the same case.