Nawaz responding to treatment, satisfied with care being provided: Dr Rashid.

Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid on Friday stated that former premier Nawaz Sharif was now responding to the treatment and had personally told her he is satisfied with the medical care that was being provided to him.

"I personally visited him and asked him: 'are you satisfied with the treatment?'" she told reporters at a press conference in Lahore. "I discussed everything with him. I will never lie to you; had he not expressed his satisfaction, I would not have said this to you.

"We told him that if he wanted us to call a doctor from abroad, the chief minister has a plane ready and we will bring the doctor to Pakistan [...] We are sharing all his reports with his personal physician," Rashid said.

The former prime minister was taken to the Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) on Monday after his personal physician, Dr Adnan Khan, had raised an alarm about his deteriorating condition in the accountability watchdog's custody.

After a struggle of three days, a six-member medical board, headed by Services Hospital Principal Ayaz Mahmood, had on Thursday diagnosed the reason for Nawaz's declining health.

'It is acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a bleeding disorder, in which the immune system destroys platelets,' a board member had told Dawn yesterday. 'We are hopeful that his condition will improve in a few days."

The provincial minister, in today's press conference, explained that earlier when doctors injected platelets in Nawaz's body, they would be destroyed, which was reflected in the constant fluctuation in the platelet count. Now, however, the PML-N supremo was responding to the treatment, she said.

"The latest platelet count is 22,000, which means he is now responding to the treatment. I have been working with blood disorders all my life I am very hopeful that this problem will be resolved."

She said that the reason she had called a press conference was to pass on a message by Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has vowed that the government will accept the verdict passed by the courts "in letter and spirit".

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader said that the prime minister has categorically stated that "as far as medical treatment is concerned, we (the government) will not leave any stone...