Pakistan’s High Commissioner Salman Bashir, who visited compatose Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here on Monday, sought an impartial probe into the attack on him.
“He is in a critical condition. His prognosis is bleak,” he told mediapersons here after seeing the Pakistani prisoner, who was injured after being attacked by another inmate in a Jammu jail last week.
“The doctors here are doing their best. They are constrained by the condition in which he was brought here,” he added.
Bashir further said the Pakistan High Commission was working on getting visa to India for Sanaullah’s family to meet him.
The condition of the Pakistani prisoner appeared more critical today.
Manju Wadwalker, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of PGIMER, said that Sanaullah is still on ventilator and his health condition shows no signs of improvement.
“His neurological condition is the same but for blood pressure maintenance we have added few more drugs and he needs to be on ventilator. On the whole, he is a bit more critical,” Wadwalker said.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) earlier in the day said the Pakistani prisoner’s medical condition is such that it does not permit any movement.
“My understanding is that the doctors had examined the condition of the Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay and they felt his condition is such that it does not permit any movement. So, medical condition is such that it precludes any movement of the prisoner,” said MEA official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin in New Delhi.
Pakistan had earlier sought the immediate repatriation of Sanaullah for treatment there.
Pakistani High Commission officials had earlier visited the comatose prisoner after India granted them consular access.
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)