Khaleda Zia's application appearing considered positively: Home Minister
Residence Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal addresses reporters from his home at Dhanmondi found in Dhaka on Wednesday nights.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said Khaleda Zia's members of the family have informed him that she desires advanced medical treatment abroad.
"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is quite compassionate and sympathetic in this respect. We are thinking about their request positively. Since we consider the problem sympathetically, we provided her (Khaleda Zia) scope of availing treatment establishments wherever she likes suspending her sentence," he said while speaking with reporters at his Dhanmondi residence at about 11:30pm on Wednesday.
The Home Minister said the government would consider the application positively if she needed treatment overseas. The application form would be sent to regulations Ministry on Thursday, he added.
It can be mentioned that BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia's brother Shamim Iskander has submitted a credit card applicatoin to the house Minister seeking authorization to take his sister overseas for better treatment.
At about 8:30pm on Wednesday, Shamim Iskander visited the residence of Residence Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to handover the letter. Then handed over the letter to the house Minister.
Confirming the matter, Home Ministry's PRO Sharif Mahmud Apu advised journalists last night that Shamim Iskander came to meet House Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and paid an application.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's medical board member Dr Mohammad Al Mamun said the physcial state of Khaleda Zia, today undergoing treatment at the coronary care device (CCU) of Evercare Medical center in the administrative centre, has remained unchanged. She's placed on oxygen support there. Her oxygen saturation level provides been fluctuating. Aside from coronavirus infection, she's been experiencing various complicated disorders for a long period. Khaleda Zia provides been being shortness of breath from Wednesday morning hours. Her diabetes level can be fluctuating.
