Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent health checkups at Evercare Hospital in the capital on Thursday.

She arrived at the hospital from her Gulshan residence around 6:48pm and stayed there for nearly five hours, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

He said that the BNP chairperson underwent several tests at the hospital as per the advice of her medical board.

Later, the BNP chief left the hospital and reached her residence around 12:15 am, he said.

Khaleda's personal physician, AZM Zahid Hossain, said the medical board formed earlier, led by Prof Shahabuddin Talukder, advised her to go for the health checkup at the hospital.

"She underwent various necessary medical tests at the hospital," he said.

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