Nawaz Sharif likely to be shifted to Services Hospital
Medical board carried out a medical examination of PML-N Supremo at Kot Lakhpat prison.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Owing to his deteriorating health, incarcerated former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif is likely to be shifted to Services Hospital.
According to Dunya News sources, directions have been given to beef up security at the hospital before the former prime minister is shifted.
According to a report of the medical board, Nawaz Sharif is expected to be shifted to hospital if his condition deteriorated.
It is pertinent here to mention that the medical board had sent the PML-N supremo’s medical report to the Home Department in which they recommended the former PM to be shifted to hospital.
According to details, the newly formed medical board carried out a medical examination of PML-N Supremo at Kot Lakhpat prison.
The instructions of medical board regarding shifting of Nawaz into a hospital were given considering his heart issues so that he can be treated properly with appropriate facilities.
Previously, a medical board of Jinnah Hospital Lahore had declared that "Sharif is not completely well and he should be shifted to hospital from jail to get optimal treatment for his heart complications."
Sharif s daughter Maryam Nawaz said the report of the Jinnah Hospital medical board suggests that her father s disease has progressed and is life-threatening.
A special medical board of the Punjab Institute of Cardiology also examined Sharif earlier said he had vague symptoms of pain in both arms, particularly at night and numbness of toes.
Sharif was tried in three corruption case launched in September, 2017. He was first convicted and sentenced for 10 years in July last year in a case related to Avenfield properties in London. The Islamabad High Court granted him bail in the case in September.
He was convicted in the Al-Azizia case but was acquitted in the Flagship investment case in December.
The cases were launched on the orders of the Supreme Court which had ousted Sharif as premier in July, 2017 in connection with a case related to the Panama Papers leaks.
