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Zia’s condition more stable now: Doctor
The Morning Standard
|December 21, 2025
BANGLADESH’S former prime minister Khaleda Zia is now “more stable”, with no deterioration in her condition, her personal doctor AZM Zahid Hossain has said.
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Zia, the 80-year-old chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has been undergoing treatment at Dhaka’s Evercare Hospital since November 23 for multiple health complications and was shifted toa coronary care unit later.
On December 11, she was placed on “ventilator support to give rest to her lungs and other vital organs”.
Her personal physician AZM Zahid Hossain said on Friday that Zia’s “condition is much more stable than before,” the state-run BSS news agency reported.
This story is from the December 21, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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