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Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that Nawaz Sharif and his family are not trusting Pakistani doctors and hospitals which they had built during their over 30 years tenure and insisting that Nawaz be sent to the hospital in London where the former premier received treatment before.
The minister accompanied by Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid at a press conference, here alleged that the complications which have come up in Nawaz's health are because of doctors in London.
He also presented a review of the various developments in the former premier's health over the past few months. Describing the scenario, Chaudhry said that certain tests, including a thallium scan, were done after which a doctor recommended that Nawaz be shifted to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) for further tests.
"On January 22, Sharif was shifted to PIC where he underwent tests. After this, at 3:30pm on the same day, the former premier went back to the jail. On January 25, the Punjab home department constituted a six-member board including doctors from Lahore and Rawalpindi cardiology hospitals while Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) personnel had also been nominated," he added.
On January 30, this board met with Nawaz in jail and advised that the former premier be shifted to a hospital due to previous ailments he had suffered. In 2001-02, Nawaz had undergone an angioplasty and in 2016, he had a bypass surgery, he continued.
"Nawaz and his family are insisting that the former premier be sent to London," the federal information minister said, adding as per the board's recommendations, Nawaz was shifted to Services Hospital. Nawaz stayed at the hospital for six days where all his tests were done and no major issue was found. The primary issue Nawaz was facing was "sugar and hyper-tension", he opined.
He claimed that no heart issue had come forward in the medical examination. Nawaz was told to get an angiography which he refused and said he did not want to get the test done in Pakistan. I want to once again point out that he doesn't want to get treatment in Pakistan. But his complication emerged in [the] London treatment," he alleged.
"Nawaz and his family is not trusting Pakistani doctors and hospitals that they had during their over for 30 years rule built," he claimed. On February 14, Sharif was shifted to the Jinnah Hospital as Chaudhry said it was among the three hospitals that have specialist doctors for all ailments. Additionally, the hospital has a cardiology ward.
Chaudhry said the Punjab government had also formed a coordination team which included professors of cardiology, urology and medicine. Referring to the PML-N's objections to a gynecologist being made part of the medical team, Fawad said this doctor was the head of the team because he is the administrative in-charge of Jinnah Hospital and so that he could coordinate with other professors and doctors.
Although, he said, the new construction at Jinnah Hospital was carried out under the tenure of Nawaz and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, they do not like any area of the hospital, saying that certain areas smelled while in other areas the bed wasn't good enough.
He added that an entire ward was emptied for Nawaz. The furniture was removed from the consultant's office, as per Nawaz's wishes, and a bedroom was made for the former premier where he stayed, he recalled.
Talking about Nawaz's bail rejection, Chaudhry said Nawaz's bail was rejected on February 24 and on the following day, Nawaz said he wanted to go back to jail and didn't want anything else. "Basically, Nawaz got mad at the court," he remarked.
Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan directed the Punjab government to give the former premier access to any hospital/doctor of his choice for medical treatment after the opposition and the PML-N workers raised reservations about Nawaz's deteriorating medical condition. Nawaz is serving a seven-year jail term awarded to him in the Al Azizia corruption case at the Kot Lakhpat jail.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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