United News of Bangladesh

A total of 15 people will accompany BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on her flight to London, scheduled to depart early Friday, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan today (Thursday, December 04). Those accompanying the former prime minister include her daughter-in-law Syeda Shameela Rahman; Adviser to the chairperson Dr Mohammad Anamul Haque Choudhury; physicians Abu Zafar Md Zahid Hossain, Fakhruddin Mohammad Siddiqui, Md Shahabuddin Talukder, Nooruddin Ahmad, Md Zafor Iqbal, Mohammad Al Mamun, and UK-based specialist Dr Richard Beale; SSF officials Hasan Shahriar Iqbal and Syed Samin Mahfuz; acting chairman’s assistant Md Abdul Hai Mollick; assistant private secretary Md Masuder Rahman; and housemaids Fatema Begum and Rupa Sikdar. Khaleda Zia has been receiving intensive treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital since her admission on November 23. She remains in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) due to multiple complications involving her liver, kidneys and heart. Read more: Khaleda Zia to be flown to UK for advanced treatment: Fakhrul A medical board led by Professor Shahabuddin Talukder, with specialists from both home and abroad, has been overseeing her treatment. Meanwhile, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the party chief may be flown to the United Kingdom early Friday on a royal air ambulance provided by the Emir of Qatar. “You have already heard that we have received a highly advanced air ambulance provided by the Emir of Qatar, on his own initiative and out of his generosity. It will arrive here tonight and, most likely, very early in the morning, they will take our leader Begum Khaleda Zia to the United Kingdom,” he said during a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office. Read more: Air ambulance delay may slightly push back Khaleda Zia’s departure