Nawaz Sharif's platelet count drops once again to precariously low level.

LAHORE -- Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's platelet count once again dropped to a precariously low level, on Wednesday.

Nawaz's platelet count dropped from 29,000 to 7,000. On advice from doctors, the former prime minister has once again been injected with platelets' units.

Nawaz's condition is closely being monitored and in order to assist the medical board, one doctor from Karachi and another from Islamabad have been called.

Nawaz's platelet count had earlier risen to 18,000 after being injected with three mega units

Earlier, the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leader was admitted to the hospital on Monday night after his platelet count dropped to a precariously low level, requiring an emergency response.

'The physicians have injected three mega units of platelets to Nawaz Sharif, which gradually hiked the cell count to 18,000,' sources privy to the special medical board had said.

Sources had further claimed that Nawaz's condition was still not completely out of danger, but he was recovering fast.

Head of the medical board Professor Dr Mahmood Ayyaz earlier told the media that the number of platelets in ex-PM's body had dropped to 10,000. He said that some of Nawaz's test results were satisfactory and some were critical.

'The tests with unsatisfactory results were being conducted again,' he said.

Nawaz was rushed to Services Hospital from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore detention centre Monday night after his health condition suddenly deteriorated. Earlier, he was shifted from Central Jail Kot Lakhpat to NAB Lahore building at Thokar Niaz Beg after the Bureau got his 14-day physical remand on October 11 in connection with the Chaudhry Sugar Mills corruption case investigation.

NAB Lahore had also got shifted the medical facilities/services, being provided to him at Central Jail, to its cell in Lahore. NAB had been directed to produce the PML-N leader in court on Oct 25, 2019.

Earlier, the Punjab government had constituted a six-member special medical board comprising Professor Ayyaz, as convener, and with members including Prof Dr Kamran Khalid Cheema, head of Pulmonology SIMS/SHL, Prof Dr M Arif Nadeem, head of Medical Unit-III SIMS/SHL, Prof Dr Faiza Bashir, head of Pathology SIMS/SHL, Dr Khadija Irfan, associate professor/head of Endocrinology SIMS/SHL and Dr Sobia Qazi, associate professor of Infectious Diseases SIMS/SHL, for detailed medical...