Sarabjit’s chances of survival slim, say Pakistan doctors
1 May 2013 7:27 AM IST
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that he ‘was keeping his fingers crossed’ about Sarbajit Singh, who is battling for life in Lahore’s Jinnah hospital after a brutal assault last week in a Pakistani jail. He expressed hope that Sarabjit, who is in a special intensive care unit of Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital, would be able to recover.
‘The morning bulletin was not very encouraging... the parameters were falling. Just keeping our fingers crossed. Frankly hoping for the best to happen.... I hope that he would be able to recover,’ he told reporters outside Parliament House.
Doctors treating the death row convict has said that Sarabjit’s condition continues to be serious but he has not been declared brain dead. Medical examiners in Pakistan had earlier said his chances of survival were ‘slim’ due to extensive head injuries.
Sarabjit’s family has been demanding that he should be brought over to India for better treatment, but Pakistan rejected it on Monday. His sister Dalbir Kaur has said that she plans to return to India to seek further medical advice on the matter.
Sarabjit sustained several injuries, including a skull fracture, when six prisoners attacked him in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday. He was hit on the head with bricks and his neck and torso cut with sharp weapons.
He was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990. His death sentence was converted to life imprisonment by President Asif Ali Zardari in 2012.
‘The morning bulletin was not very encouraging... the parameters were falling. Just keeping our fingers crossed. Frankly hoping for the best to happen.... I hope that he would be able to recover,’ he told reporters outside Parliament House.
Doctors treating the death row convict has said that Sarabjit’s condition continues to be serious but he has not been declared brain dead. Medical examiners in Pakistan had earlier said his chances of survival were ‘slim’ due to extensive head injuries.
Sarabjit’s family has been demanding that he should be brought over to India for better treatment, but Pakistan rejected it on Monday. His sister Dalbir Kaur has said that she plans to return to India to seek further medical advice on the matter.
Sarabjit sustained several injuries, including a skull fracture, when six prisoners attacked him in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday. He was hit on the head with bricks and his neck and torso cut with sharp weapons.
He was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990. His death sentence was converted to life imprisonment by President Asif Ali Zardari in 2012.
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