Islamabad: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter and Vice-President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Maryam Nawaz on Saturday cautioned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government against her father’s deteriorating health and warned if something happened to him the government would be held accountable.
While addressing a press conference in Lahore, Maryam shared Nawaz Sharif’s history of cardiac and renal complaints saying Sharif was suffering from stage-3 kidney problems and if God forbid, it further drops to stage-4 he might go to dialysis and “you know one’s quality of life when one is on dialysis,” she said.
Maryam Nawaz, who was accompanied by former Information Minister Senator Pervaiz Rashid and MPA Uzma Zahid Bukhari, said Nawaz Sharif suffered a third heart attack in Adiala Jail last year and doctors concealed it from the family. Maryam showed a discharge certificate as well stating last July her father had suffered a heart attack and that government and jail authorities did not proper attention to his health.
Maryam said when Nawaz suffered the heart attack both of them — she and her father — were spending jail term in Adiala.
She said the jail doctors asked her to convince Nawaz Sharif to go to the hospital but he initially refused because he did not want to leave her alone in jail.
“It was obvious they (the doctors) were concealing something from me. I was worried and could sense something was wrong and asked them what it was they were hiding from but I was not told anything.
Maryam told that she was asked to convince my father to go to the hospital and he was reluctant to leave me alone. My father’s cardiologist was also called from Lahore to assess the situation,” she stated.
Maryam also read out the discharge report from the hospital and expressed her surprise why the courts of the country missed her father’s deteriorating health while considering his bail application.
She told media according to advice of medical professionals her father was in need of another bypass and “if his health deteriorates, all those involved would be held responsible.”
She said the government was monitoring meetings with Nawaz.
“When I went to meet him there was a man there and when we asked who he was and why he was not leaving he said he was assigned to overlook the meeting.”
Even prisoners are supposed to have some rights, she added. To a question Maryam claimed when she met a doctor who had examined her father he told her that every word of their report was being monitored and they were supposed to undermine the severity of Nawaz Sharif’s health.”
Doctors have advised us to get him to his doctors abroad to the same hospital he has been receiving treatment, she said. The doctor told her that Nawaz Sharif needed to undergo a number of surgeries that are pending for the last six weeks, she said.
