–Special board urges govt to shift former premier to hospital
LAHORE: A special medical board, constituted for overseeing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s health, on Friday recommended that the former premier be shifted to a hospital in light of his heart diseases.
The recommendation came after the board, including army doctors, conducted Nawaz’s detailed medical examination at Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Following the examination, the board sent the report to the Home Department, urging the Punjab government to shift the ex-PM to a hospital so he could avail better health facilities.
The board, which was formed on January 25 by the Punjab government, comprises cardiac experts from Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC), Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC).
The six-member special medical board includes Dr Hamid Sharif Khan, Dr Muhammad Talha Bin Nazir, Dr Shahid Hameed, Dr Sajad Ahmed, Brigadier Abdul Hameed Siddiqui and Brigadier Azmat Hayat.
Nawaz Sharif is currently serving seven-year imprisonment at Kot Lakhpat after he was convicted by an accountability court in the Al-Aziza corruption case, stemming from Panama Papers leak.
On Thursday, several Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders and family members, including his mother Shamim Akhtar paid a weekly visit to Nawaz at the jail.
Nawaz Sharif, while meeting with the PML-N leaders, was critical of how Mamnoon Hussain had been treated at the prison.
Nawaz Sharif was quoted as saying: “Former prime ministers have been mistreated in Pakistan but this is the first time a former president has been treated this way.”
He had criticised jail authorities for searching the former president from head to toe, saying that Mamnoon is an elderly person but he was taken off the car and made to walk to the prison. “No other country treats its former presidents like this,” he had said.
