Khaleda receives Covid booster dose
Her personal physician Professor Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said the BNP Chairperson received the Pfizer vaccine shot as her third or booster dose.
Along with Khaleda Zia, three of her family assistants–Rupa Sikder, Abdur Rahim and Abdul Khaleque–were injected Pfizer booster shots.
She received the Covid-19 booster shot on board her car just after arriving at the Sheikh Russel Gastroliver Hospital premises at about 4:30pm on Wednesday (Feb 23, 2022).
Khaleda arrived at the hospital premises at 4:20pm. She left her rented Gulshan residence ‘Firoza’ at about 4:10pm, said her media wing member Shayrul Kabir Khan.
On July 18 last year, Khaleda received the first dose of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, while she received the second dose of the same vaccine on August 18 at the same hospital
She tested negative for Covid-19 on May 8—27 days after she had been infected with the deadly virus.
Later, the BNP chief registered online through Surokkha website for getting the vaccine on July 8.
Khaleda, a 76-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung and eye problems.
She was last admitted to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on November 13 last year where she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis.
On February 1, she returned home after an 81-day stay in the hospital as she was suffering from inertial bleeding caused by the liver cirrhosis problem.
Her medical board members said Khaleda immediately needs to go abroad for better treatment of her liver cirrhosis problem.
On behalf of her family, Khaleda’s younger brother, Shamim Iskander, submitted an application to the home ministry on November 11 urging the government to allow her to go abroad for better treatment.
The government still did not dispose of the application while the ministers are saying the BNP chief has no scope to go abroad until she files a fresh application returning to jail.
