Khaleda’s deformed hand can be ‘improved to some extent’: doctors
Physicians at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University said Tuesday that the health condition of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia did not deteriorate further but remained static.
At a news briefing about the health condition of the former prime minister, BSMMU director (hospital), Brigadier General Abdullah Al Harun, said routine health checkup of Khaleda Zia was conducted on Tuesday.
The medical board to treat Khaleda Zia said Monday that prolonged rheumatoid arthritis developed deformity in Khaleda’s left hand and frozen her left shoulder.
She has arthritis in her left hip joint and in the knees. Besides, she is suffering from uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension, painful urination and respiratory problem, the medical board said.
Abdullah Al Harun said that physiotherapy for Khaleda Zia will be started from Tuesday as physiotherapy is important for the rheumatoid arthritis patients.
He said the situation of her hand and can be ‘improved to some extent’ after treatment.
He said the medical board completed collecting Khaleda’s medical case history and they will meet her Wednesday afternoon.
The medical board on Monday said Khaleda’s main health problem is rheumatoid arthritis and before starting the main treatment (of rheumatoid arthritis) her other health conditions should ascertained.
Medicines of rheumatoid arthritis cannot be given if the conditions of her heart, liver, kidney and diabetes do not permit or if her infection is not cured, they said.
‘We need to asses her overall health condition and it will take at least two weeks,’ said professor MA Jalil Chowdhury, head of the medical board.
Ailing Khaleda was admitted to the hospital on Saturday after languishing nine months at the old Dhaka Central Jail since February 8, in a case of corruption, denied by her and her party and dubbed as ‘politically motivated’.
The government did not allow her to leave the jail though the Supreme Court granted her bail in the case as she was shown arrested in dozens of cases.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
