Khaleda’s home quarantine period may linger

The 14-day home quarantine period of ailing Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was released from jail on March 25, may be extended due to present coronavirus situation.

‘Her 14-day home quarantine, as per suggestion of her medical board, will end on Thursday. The coronavirus situation is deteriorating which had compelled the government to extend public holidays until April 14 and asking people to stay at home until the day. At this situation, the doctors suggested to linger the quarantine period or keeping her at a state like that,’ BNP vice-chairman Dr AZM Zahid Hossain who is a member of the medical board formed for her treatment told New Age.

He said that the lingered period might be extended until the country’s coronavirus situation became normal.

Zahid, also former president of pro-BNP physicians’ organisation Doctors’ Association of Bangladesh, said that Khaleda could not move alone properly and was still vomiting.

‘Besides, her ailments had deepened as she was kept isolated in jail for about 26 months,’ added the doctor.

He said that her eldest daughter-in-law Zubaida Rahman, a physician by profession, had been coordinating her treatment and that the medical board will sit after her quarantine period and would contact the physicians in home and abroad for her follow-up treatment.

The former prime minister’s private secretary ABM Abdus Sattar told New Age that her personal doctors were visiting her following quarantine rules and that she was improving slowly.

Khaleda who had been in jail since February 8, 2018, the day she was jailed by a Dhaka special court, was released from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on March 25 for six months on executive order.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net