The Punjab government on Friday refuted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) claims regarding former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s deteriorating health.
Speaking to the media outside the Punjab Assembly, Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan said Maryam Nawaz was creating an unnecessary hue and cry over the former premier’s health. He insisted that Nawaz’s medical reports were fine.
“The Sharifs should stop lying,” he said “He is a high profile criminal, yet the federal and provincial governments have not placed any restrictions on him. He still receives food from home.”
Punjab information minister says ‘Sharifs should stop lying’
Chohan’s statements come after Maryam said Nawaz was suffering from heart problems. “He has had multiple episodes in the last few days which he has been treating with sublingual sprays & tablets. They took him back to jail yesterday, conveniently turning a blind eye to the recommendations of the doctors and boards,” her tweet read.
Nawaz’s physician Dr Adnan Khan said the medical board at Punjab Institute of Cardiology had diagnosed Moderate Inferolateral Partially Reversible Perfusion Defect on Thallium Scan, which translates into lack of blood supply to a portion of heart.”
He said it was a definite cause of angina and needed treatment.
The deposed premier is currently serving a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail, against the National Accountability Bureau’s Al-Aziza corruption reference in light of the Supreme Court’s Panamagate verdict.
He was taken for a medical examination to Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Tuesday on the recommendation of a special three-member medical board comprising Professor Dr Shahid Hameed, Dr Sajjad Ahmed and Dr Hamid Khalil.
Published in Daily Times, January 26th 2019.
