Former Pakistan PM Sharif fighting for his life: doctor
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif is “critically unwell”, his doctor said yesterday, days after the three-time leader now serving a prison sentence for corruption suffered a minor heart attack.
Sharif is currently in hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, where he is “critically unwell” and is “fighting the battle for his health & life,” his personal physician, Adnan Khan, tweeted yesterday.
As his condition worsened, the Islamabad High Court yesterday effectively extended his bail for two months to allow him access to medical care.
Sharif remains on a “stop list”, meaning he cannot leave the country for the time being.
Members of Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party meanwhile bristled at the former premier’s treatment by Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government, who had boasted of depriving his rival of basic amenities in prison.
“Sharif’s condition deteriorated because of Imran Khan’s vengeance against the former Prime Minister. Let it be known to everyone that, God forbid, if something happens to Sharif, Khan will be responsible for the consequences,” senior leader PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal told reporters.
In addition to the minor heart attack, Sharif has a low platelet count, both of which are being further complicated by “deteriorating kidney functions”, Adnan Khan said.
He said poor blood sugar and blood pressure control was taking its toll, adding that “establishing a definitive diagnosis and subsequent management poses considerable risk to #NawazSharif’s fragile and unstable health”.
The 69-year-old former premier, known as the “Lion of Punjab”, was first taken to hospital last week when his blood platelet count dropped to dangerous levels.
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