LAHORE/AMRITSAR: Doctors at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital on Tuesday said Sarabjit Singh was "brain-dead" even as Pakistani authorities refused to give a medical update. Brain-dead refers to a condition where the brain is irreversibly damaged but other vital organs may be functioning with artificial support.
Sarabjit has been in deep coma since Friday's near-fatal attack in jail and despite detecting severe injuries, doctors said his body was in no condition for surgery. "Sarabjit's survival needs nothing less than a miracle," a senior doctor told TOI on condition of anonymity.
Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur said on Tuesday that even if doctors in Pakistan declared her brother brain-dead, she would not allow him to be taken off the ventilator.
Dalbir said she had appealed to the Indian government to send a team of doctors to examine Sarabjit as she was not satisfied with the treatment given to him at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital. "Even if Pakistani doctors declare my brother brain dead, I wouldn't let them remove him from ventilators unless a team of doctors from India examines him," she said.
All through Tuesday, Sarabjit's wife and daughter weren't given any clear picture of the 49-year-old's status; TOI managed to reach some doctors privy to the treatment who confirmed he was "brain-dead" while being on ventilator support. Sarabjit's wife and daughters will return from Pakistan on Wednesday and head for New Delhi to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
"His brain is dead. He was brought to the hospital in a state of deep coma. Since day one, his health has not shown any sign of improvement. In such cases, patients survives till the ventilator runs," a senior doctor told TOI.
Dalbir told TOI that she got to speak to a doctor around 9pm and was told, "Pray for him, it could take 10 days to three months for him to recover." But she blamed authorities at the hospital for being "evasive" and refusing to let any relative near the patient. She said until now, Sarabjit was partly covered by a sheet but "today when I peered into the ICU I saw him entirely covered".
She added that she had seen an ink mark on Sarabjit's left thumb. "Why is there ink mark on his thumb? I believe Pakistani authorities must have obtained his thumb impression on some documents."
Sarabjit was attacked with bricks and iron rods by two fellow inmates - Amir Tanba and Mudasir - in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail on Friday afternoon when he was brought outside his cell for a routine break.
Sarabjit's lawyer, Awais Shaikh, said his client had informed the authorities several times about threats to his life. Shaikh said that he had written to the prison authorities and government officials but all those requests were not taken seriously. "The jail authorities were themselves involved in the brutality," he remarked.
Meanwhile, the Punjab government has issued show cause notices to seven jail officials, including jail Superintendent Mohsin Rafiq, for failing to protect Sarabjit.
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