BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s personal doctors have entered the old jailhouse in Dhaka to examine her physical condition.
A team of four doctors entered the premises on Old Dhaka’s Nazimuddin Road just after 4pm, Shairul Kabir Khan, BNP chairperson's media wing member, told Bangla Tribune.
He said the team consists of medicine specialist FM Siddique neurosurgeon Wahidur Rahman, ophthalmologist Professor Adbul Quddus and Mamun Rahman.
A three-time prime minister, Khaleda is serving a five-year term since Feb 8, when she was convicted of embezzling foreign donations made to the Zia Orphanage Trust.
BNP leaders have been claiming that the jailed party chief’s condition was severe.
Speaking at a media briefing on Friday, Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi quoting Khaleda’s relatives, who met her at the prison, that she has been “suffering from high-fever for the last three weeks”.
“In medical terminology it’s called transient ischemic attack. Both of her legs have swollen and she can’t move properly,” Rizvi claimed.
A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a brief episode of neurological dysfunction caused by loss of blood flow (ischemia) in the brain, spinal cord, or retina, without tissue death (infarction). It causes the same symptoms associated with stroke, such as paralysis, weakness, or numbness on one side of the body.