BNP’s General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Photo : Collected
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is doing fine as transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, or TIPS procedure on her was completed successfully at Evercare Hospital, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday (27 October).
"As you all know, three expert doctors arrived here from abroad. They were able to perform the (TIPS) procedure very successfully on Thursday (26 October) evening," he said.
Speaking at a press conference at BNP's Nayapaltan central office, Fakhrul said Khaleda Zia has now been staying in the CCU of the Hospital.
"Doctors are talking to her...so far her condition is so good," the BNP leader said.
Earlier on Thursday evening, the visiting three US specialist doctors conducted the special TIPS procedure on Khaleda, creating new connections between two blood vessels in her liver without any surgery, to stop water accretion in her stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.
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