Chandigarh, May 4 (ANI): Doctors treating injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here on Saturday said that his condition remains critical.
"The patient is being looked after by the head of neurosurgery department Dr. Mathuria and Prof. Y. K. Batra. He is the in charge of ICU. Both are heading the team of doctors who are examining him and looking after him. The patient is critical and he is on ventilator, and his blood pressure is being maintained through drugs. Head injuries are there and CT scan shows oedema and contusions," said ManjuWadwalker, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of PGIMER.
" Yes, they visited the patient and they met the director and they were told about the patient, his condition and all," she added, when asked whether the officials from the Pakistan High Commission visited him.
Pakistan High Commission officials visited Sanaullah at PGIMER today after India granted consular access to them last night.
India had granted the consular access to Pakistani High Commission officials last night. They had also given travel permission to three officials and a driver.
Sanaullah was injured during a scuffle with another inmate in Jammu jail earlier on Friday morining where he was serving life term after being convicted under TADA provisions.
He was arrested in 1999. A resident of Sialkot in Pakistan, Sanaullah was immediately shifted from the high-security Kot Bhalwal jail to Government Medical College Hospital, and later rushed to PGIMER in Chandigarh in an air ambulance after doctors said his condition was critical.
The incident involving Sanaullah came a day after the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was brutally attacked on April 26 by six Pakistani inmates in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail. (ANI)
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