Zubaida arrives at Evercare Hospital to see Khaleda Zia

Zubaida Rahman has arrived at Dhaka’s Evercare Hospital to see her ailing mother-in-law, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

The convoy carrying Zubaida arrived at the hospital in the Bashundhara Residential Area around 11:45am on Friday.

Zubaida's flight from London landed at Shahjalal International Airport around 10:45am on Friday.

From the airport, she went straight to Evercare Hospital to be with her mother-in-law.

She had left London aboard a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 6pm local time on Thursday.

Zubaida is to accompany Khaleda to London on Qatar’s royal air ambulance so that the BNP chief can receive advanced treatment. But a technical glitch on the air ambulance has delayed their departure for the moment.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the air ambulance will arrive on Saturday if the problem can be resolved soon.

“If Madam (Khaleda) is fit to travel and the medical board approves, then, In Sha Allah, she will fly out on the 7th (Sunday).”

Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, Khaleda’s personal physician, said around midnight on Thursday that Khaleda was under close observation at Evercare Hospital’s Critical Care Unit.

Zubaida had previously accompanied the BNP chief on her trip to Dhaka from London on May 5. She then returned to London on Jun 5 after staying in Dhaka for a month.

Khaleda, the 79-year-old former prime minister, has spent the several in an “extremely critical” condition at the private Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. Doctors now say she is stable enough to travel.