Khaleda receives treatment for uneven teeth

Jailed Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, who has been undergoing treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital, received dental care for her uneven teeth on Saturday.

The 74-year-old former prime minister was taken to the hospital’s dental unit from her cabin at about 1:30pm amid tight security.

She was taken back to her cabin about an hour later.

BSMMU’s oral and maxillofacial surgery chairman Professor Quazi Billur Rahman told New Age that Khaleda Zia was given treatment in her teeth on the right jaw.

‘The teeth had become sharp and uneven. We have treated it,’ he said.

Earlier in June she received dental care at the department for fungal infection in the mouth caused by uneven teeth.

The hospital’s additional director Nazmul Karim Manik told New Age that the overall health condition of Khaleda Zia was ‘good’.

‘Her health condition is good and stable…She is doing well,’ he said, replying to a question about the BNP concern over her health condition.

‘She only suffered from uneven teeth which are common for elderly people,’ Nazmul said.

The BNP on Friday expressed the party’s concern over the health condition of the party chairperson and repeated the demand that her treatment be arranged at home or abroad as per her desire.

The party secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, addressing a press briefing in the party chairperson’s office at Gulshan in Dhaka, also alleged that it was not possible to give her proper treatment at the BSMMU.

He said that Khaleda had been suffering from tongue ulcer and had lost about four kilograms of weight over the past one week.

The BNP chief was shifted to the BSMMU hospital on April 1 from her prison room at the abandoned Central Jail in Old Dhaka for treatment.

She has been in prison since February 8, 2018 in corruption cases, dubbed as politically motivated by her party.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net