Treatment of Nawaz changed as platelets count drops again.

Byline: Iqtidar Gilani

LAHORE -- Following drop in the platelets count of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the doctors on Sunday discontinued blood thinning medicines.

The Special Medical Board governing his treatment had started giving blood thinning medicines after the ex-PM suffered minor heart attack. The medication, however, led to drop in the platelets count from 45,000 the other day to just 25,000 on Sunday.

After stopping the use of blood thinning medicines, the board decided to continue treatment of immune thrombocytopenia purpara (ITP) with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) injections.

Shamim Begum (Nawaz's mother), Kausar Bibi (Nawaz's sister) and Junaid Safdar(Maryam's son) visited Services Hospital on Sunday and inquired after the ailing ex-PM. PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb also visited the health facility.

Doctors were expecting the platelets count of Nawaz Sharif to reach normal level within days but the drop resurfaced due to use of Loprin and other blood thinning medicines that are given in cardiac ailment.

Contradicting reports of shifting the former premier to a private health facility, Prof Mahmood Ayyaz, head of the board and Principal of Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), said that the treatment would continue at the Services Hospital.

It will be inappropriate to shift him to somewhere else as doctors at Services Hospital are better aware about his condition and are giving him right treatment...