Metropolis Desk-
Following a successful liver surgery at Evercare Hospital, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is doing well, according to a statement released today by party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
“As everyone is aware, three highly qualified physicians have arrived from overseas. Yesterday evening, on Thursday, they executed the TIPS surgery with great success,” he stated.
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, or TIPS for short, is a liver operation that makes new blood vessel connections between two existing ones.
During a news conference held at the BNP central office in Nayapaltan, Fakhrul stated that Khaleda is currently residing in the hospital’s critical care unit.
Three US specialist doctors who were visiting Khaleda earlier on Thursday night performed a specific TIPS technique on her to stop the bleeding in her liver and the accumulation of water in her stomach and chest.
After evaluating Khaleda’s condition and the results of her tests, the US physicians, Hamid Rabb, Christos Georgiades, and James PA Hamilton of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, chose to proceed with the TIPS treatment.
A stent (tube) is inserted during a TIPS surgery to link the portal veins to nearby blood arteries with reduced pressure. This reduces portal hypertension, or elevated blood pressure in the portal vein, which frequently develops in conjunction with liver cirrhosis.
Around 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Drs. Rabb and Hamilton arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. On Thursday, at around 2:00 a.m., Dr. Georgiades arrived at the airport.
Since August 9, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been receiving medical care at the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.
The 78-year-old former prime minister has been afflicted with several conditions, such as diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye issues; he also has diabetes and liver cirrhosis.
On October 9, the BNP chief’s medical board at Evercare Hospital declared that the former prime minister’s internal bleeding, infections brought on by her liver cirrhosis condition, and a lack of appropriate treatment to stop water accumulation in her chest and stomach put her life in danger.
