Doctors refuse to discharge Nawaz over health risk.

Lahore: Doctors treating former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at the Services Hospital have refused to discharge the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo citing serious health risk, a private TV channel reported on Monday.

Nawaz, who was admitted to Lahore's Services Hospital almost a week ago and is being treated under the supervision of a special medical board, experienced once more a dip in his platelet count a day earlier, with the number going down from 45,000 to 25,000. The platelet count, according to the special medical board, decreased due to medicines he was being administered for his cardiac disease following a minor heart attack. However, as doctors stopped giving him that medicine, his platelet count rose back up.

Doctors have further advised to keep the PML-N leader in the hospital till platelet count is normal. In his current condition, the former prime minister cannot be moved from the hospital, they said.

According to the report, the doctors have also decided...