LONDON: Doctors treating former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s wife, BegumKulsoom Nawaz have informed today that her condition is highly critical.
In a briefing to the Sharif family today, the five-member board of doctorsshared that Begum Kulsoom will not be taken off the ventilator for now andasked Nawaz to wait for another review of her condition, the timeline ofwhich has not been given at the moment.
Sources said that the doctors informed Nawaz, Maryam and Shehbaz Sharifthat Begum Kulsoom’s condition has not deteriorated but has not improvedsignificantly either since last Thursday.
Earlier today, it was reported that doctors at the Harley Street Clinicwould hold a meeting after which they were to brief the Sharif family.
The ex-prime minister’s wife has been admitted to the hospital, where sheis on life support, since June 14 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Nawaz and his daughter, Maryam, had reached London the same day to tend toBegum Kulsoom.
Nawaz did not talk to reporters while leaving the clinic today whereasMaryam only commented that her mother’s condition is “not too good”.