Daily Times

Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s personal physician Dr Adnan has said that the deposed premier’s health is “at risk” if he is not hospitalised.

The former premier’s doctor said the recommendations of the medical board comprising doctors from Allama Iqbal Medical College and Jinnah Hospital were received the other day in which the medical board had recommended hospitalising Nawaz due to his condition.

“Not hospitalising the former premier has posed a risk to his health,” he said Wednesday.

A day after reports emerged that Nawaz is not well; the former prime minister was shifted to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) in the walled city on Tuesday amid strict security.

Nawaz was earlier advised to get additional tests done by his personal doctor in a bid to ascertain reasons for the chest pain he has been going through.

The ousted premier has been behind the bars in Kot Lakhpat Prison since December 24, 2018, after an accountability court convicted him in a corruption reference filed in line with the apex court’s July 28, 2017 verdict.

Meanwhile, sources said that the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) administration conducted only Thallium scan test of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif due to security concerns and pressures from certain quarters. The premier was taken to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Jan 22 for angiography on the recommendation of Jinnah Hospital’s Head of Medicine Department Professor Tanveerul Islam. The doctors have expressed their dissatisfaction over the Thallium scan test report of the former premier. The hospital sources disclosed that one of the arteries of Nawaz has narrowed down which has negatively affected blood supply to the lower body.

Maryam said Nawaz Sharif’s official reports from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) were still awaited and she had been running from pillar to post but to no avail.

In an earlier tweet, Maryam said that the recommendation by government constituted boards of her father needing to be hospitalised was concealed and overlooked.

Published in Daily Times, January 24^th 2019.