Jailed Khaleda suffers a mild stroke: personal physician

The jailed Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia recently had a ‘mild stroke’, a personal physician of the BNP leader said on Saturday after visiting her.
A four-member delegation of Khaleda’s personal physicians visited her at the old Dhaka Central Jail in the old city Saturday afternoon.
Coming out from the jail after more than one hour and a half, one of them, Dhaka Medical College Hospital medicine department professor FM Siddiqui told journalists that Khaleda suddenly collapsed from standing position at about noon on June 5 and remained unconscious for five to seven minutes and she could not recall what happened to her at that time.
He said that after checking her, they suspected it as a transient ischemic attack, one form of mild stroke.
The medicine professor said that they recommended immediate admission of Khaleda to a specialised hospital for conducting tests to confirm the matter.
He said that suggested that Khaleda should be admitted to United Hospital in Dhaka.
Siddiqui said that if anyone suffered TIA had a risk of a major stroke.
Replying to a query, he said that Khaleda now could communicate but there was some inertia in her talking.
FM Siddiqui said that they submitted four-page recommendations to the prison authority for Khaleda’s better treatment.
Three other physicians visited Khaleda along with FM Siddiqui were Syed Wahidur Rahman of neuromedicine, eye specialist  Abdul Quddus and cardiologist Mohammad Mamun.
They entered the jail at about 4:00pm and came out at about 5:30pm.
Khaleda Zia was jailed for five years in a graft case by a Dhaka special judge’s court on February 8.

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