Punjab govt offers best medical treatment to Nawaz Sharif

Sharif is apparently quite healthy at this time and wanted to wait for his bail.

LAHORE (Dunya News) – Punjab government on Thursday formally offered former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif to provide best medical treatment in the country.

Addressing a press conference in Lahore after meeting the PML-N supremo at Kot Lakhpat Jail, spokesperson for Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Gill said that the government is ready if Sharif wanted to call his personal doctor from London, adding that the provincial government will on Friday formally write a letter to the Sharif family in this regard.

The spokesperson went on to say that the government is ready for medical checkup of the former premier from the foreign cardiologists arrived in Islamabad for conference.

“Sharif is apparently quite healthy at this time,” he said and wanted to wait for his bail.

Gill further said that the government wouldn’t have objection for the former prime minister’s treatment at Sharif Medical Complex if there is relaxation in the law.

Earlier, Shahbaz Gill along with senior doctors Professor Saqib and Professor Shahid met Nawaz Sharif at the Kot Lakhpat Jail and offered him best medical treatment.

On March 5, Nawaz refused to be shifted to Punjab Institute of Cardiology after suffering angina attack. The 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.