PM Khan directs to provide best medical treatment to Nawaz Sharif
Last updated on: 07 March,2019 08:52 pm
Nawaz has refused to be shifted to Punjab Institute of Cardiology after suffering angina attack.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday directed Punjab government to provide best medical treatment to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid for Life Nawaz Sharif.
Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry revealed this on his twitter account.
“Nawaz should be given access to the hospital and doctor of his choice. The recommendations of medical board should also be implemented,” the PM maintained.
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) March 7, 2019
Nawaz has refused to be shifted to Punjab Institute of Cardiology after suffering angina attack on March 5.
PML-N leaders while expressing concern over the health of Nawaz blamed the government for not providing adequate treatment to the former premier.
Maryam Nawaz, daughter of incarcerated former premier Nawaz Sharif, took to Twitter and said no treatment is offered to her father despite being taken and kept in the hospital for days.
Maryam Nawaz wrote, “MNS’s doctor & I met him at Kotlakhpat jail today. During the meeting he had an episode of angina & asked for his nitrate spray. It was then that he divulged that he has had similar attacks 4 times in last week. He reiterated that he will neither report nor complain.”
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed strong concerns on what he termed political victimization of his elder brother Nawaz Sharif by the ruling party that he has been denied proper treatment.
The Opposition Leader in the National Assembly said that the government has been involved in criminal negligence while the former premier needed to be shifted to a medical facility for treatment of his heart disease.
He said making sick person subject of political vendetta is immoral.
"Ministers can go abroad despite being on the ECL, but a man who equipped Pakistan with nuclear weapons is not allowed to have proper treatment at a hospital," he said.
He said Nawaz Sharif is Pakistan’s pride and government’s refusal to accept medical board’s recommendation over his brother’s health condition reflects government’s unethical behavior.