Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will move to high court if party chief, Khaleda Zia, is not satisfied with the BSMMU medical board, said barrister Moudud Ahmed.

“The High Court has allowed Khaleda Zia to take her medical treatment anywhere she wants.”

High Court also ordered not to engage any Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad (Swachip) doctors in her medical board at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). But the hospital authorities are not obeying the High Court order, deplored Moudud.

BNP standing committee member, barrister Moudud Ahmed made the comments after meeting the director of BSMMU around 12.30pm on Sunday.

Moudud said, concerns were voiced over Khaleda Zia’s health during the meeting with the hospital’s director, Brig Gen Md Abdullah-Al-Harun.

Khaleda Zia was admitted to BSMMU on Saturday (Oct 6), in line with a high court order.

On 4 Oct, high court directed the government to immediately move the BNP chief from Dhaka’s Old Central Jail to BSMMU—for treatment and ordered the formation of a five-member medical board over the matter.

The former three-time prime minister has been in jail since she was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on Feb 8.

On Sept 16, a government-formed medical board suggested admitting Khaleda to a hospital like BSMMU, although they did not find symptoms of any serious disease in her during medical tests.

On Apr 7, Khaleda had undergone some medical tests at BSMMU Hospital because of her illness. BNP has long been demanding their party chief to be moved to United Hospital, in city’s Gulshan area, for better treatment —as the conditions of her left hand and leg worsened.