Leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) converged outside Evercare Hospital on Sunday morning to check on party chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, despite repeated calls to avoid crowding the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By 11:30 a.m., a steady stream of supporters from across the country had formed at the hospital gate. \u201cI came to learn the latest update. We were told not to come, but the heart doesn\u2019t listen,\u201d said Shahadat Hossain, former senior joint secretary of Uttarkhan Thana BNP. Gazipur district BNP convener A K M Fazlul Haque Milon urged supporters to pray, noting that only physicians could speak to her clinical status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Singra upazila chairman Abidur Rahman Khan Roman said he was unable to see Zia inside but called on the nation to pray for her recovery. Another supporter, Asifuzzaman Asif, a vice-president of Tangail Thana BNP, said he had heard she had spoken in the morning and called that \u201cencouraging,\u201d while stressing continued prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 80-year-old BNP chief, who has longstanding cardiac disease, diabetes, arthritis, liver cirrhosis, and kidney complications, was admitted last Sunday with acute breathing difficulty and is being treated in the hospital\u2019s coronary care unit under a board of local and foreign specialists. Party figures said her condition was \u201cextremely critical\u201d late Friday. Hospital sources now describe slight improvement<\/strong> compared with mid-week but warn the overall crisis persists, with four consecutive days of dialysis<\/strong> due to sharply reduced kidney function. Doctors consider the next several days critical<\/strong>, and only clinical staff are being allowed bedside access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Outside the hospital, small groups held bannered prayer gatherings that intermittently disrupted traffic. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has asked activists not<\/strong> to congregate at the hospital and to ignore social-media rumors, appealing instead for quiet prayers for Zia\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) converged outside Evercare Hospital on Sunday morning to check on party chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, despite repeated calls to avoid crowding the facility. By 11:30 a.m., a steady stream of supporters from across the country had formed at the hospital gate. \u201cI came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6774,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions\/6774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}