As per government approval, three American doctors will arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday for assisting the treatment of convicted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Among the three physicians, one is a herpetologist, one is an interventionist and the other is a nephrologist.
Dr Rafiqul Islam, BNP's health affairs secretary, confirmed it.
Meanwhile, Law Minister Anisul Haque said that the government has given all kinds of cooperation to bring these US doctors for better treatment of Khaleda Zia. He made this remark while talking to reporters.
When asked whether written permission was sought for Khaleda Zia's doctor, Anisul Haque said, “They have asked us for written permission.”
“We have no objection to bring doctors from abroad. When they asked me, we gave no objection. And we have made all the necessary assistance for the foreign doctors to come in Bangladesh”, he added.
When asked whether the arrangement to bring doctors was a government initiative, the law minister said, “It is not the government, but Khaleda Zia's family members are doing it.”
In another development, Khaleda Zia, who has been undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka, was again taken back to a cabin on Tuesday afternoon from the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) after her stay there for about nine hours.
“Our leader Begum Khaleda Zia is very sick. Doctors have been saying repeatedly that she is very sick. She had to be taken to the CCU last night. Then she was taken back to a cabin around 12pm,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
The BNP chairperson has been undergoing treatment at the hospital since August 9 for various health complications.
The former prime minister, who was convicted in several corruption cases has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems.
Khaleda Zia was sent to the Old Dhaka Jail after a lower court sentenced her to five years' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later, she was found guilty in another corruption case the same year.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with the condition that she must stay in her Gulshan house and will not leave the country.