Staff Reporter :
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Sunday refused to go to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital for medical check-up, according to Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General Syed Iftekhar Uddin.
“I would not go to that hospital (BSMMU). I am not bound to explain the reason why I would not go to that hospital,” Khaleda Zia told the IG Prison as he told the journalists.
Earlier on the day, Home Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said in the secretariat that the jailed BNP chief would be brought to BSMMU for check-up from the old central jail.
He said, “The IG Prisons has already been instructed to take BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to BSMMU for medical check-up,” the home minister told reporters at his office as they draw his attention to Khaleda’s personal physician’s observation that she might have suffered a mild stroke inside jail.
On Saturday a four member team of Khaleda Za’s personal physicians checked her health in jail.
Professor Dr. FM Siddique one of the physicians on the team told the journalists after checking her condition in the jail, that Khaleda Zia had fallen on the jail floor on June5 and remained unconscious for seven minutes. She now fails to recall how she had fallen.
The four member physicians team suspected it as a transient ischemic attack, which is one form of mild stroke. they also fear it may cause serious stroke later on.
The physicians suggested Khaleda Zia should be admitted to United Hospital in Dhaka.
BNP Senior Joint-Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has also demanded she be admitted to United Hospital in Dhaka.
“There are no sufficient logistic facilities required for her treatment in the BSMMU Hospital. We demanded her admission in the United Hospital where she was treated several times before. The hospital has sufficient facilities for her treatment,” Rizvi said.
The party also demonstrated at different thanas in the capital and other cities and district head quarters demanding Khaleda Zia’s proper treatment.
The party earlier announced the programme on Friday after Khaleda Zia’s family members inform the party after visiting her in the jail about her mild stroke on June 5.
