Staff Reporter
Lahore
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been diagnosed with acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a bleeding disorder in which the immune system destroys platelets, which are necessary for normal blood clotting, according to medics.
“The blood disorder is easily treatable in Pakistan,” a doctor on the medical board treating the incarcerated politician at Lahore’s Services Hospital told media. “Nawaz Sharif has been put on IVIG,” he said, adding that Nawaz would recover in a week’s time.
IVIg, or Intravenous immunoglobulin, is a treatment that combines immunoglobulins donated by different people and is given by a drip.
“He [Nawaz] does not have aplastic anaemia and his haemoglobin and WBC (white blood cells) count are normal. Platelets are low, though,” said the doctor, who is privy to the former premier’s treatment and health issues.
