91 prisoners terminally ill in Pakistani jails
November 22, 2019
In October, when the Islamabad High Court released former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on medical grounds, the chief justice ordered state authorities to compile a list of ailing prisoners in Pakistan’s jails.
Such data was already presented in the Supreme Court last year.
In June 2018, the country’s highest court, during the term of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, released the information in a press release. As per statement, there were 91 terminally ill prisoners, with life threatening diseases, waiting treatment across the country.
Here is a breakdown:
| Disease | Punjab | Sindh | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Balochistan | Total |
| HIV Aids | 5 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 25 |
| Cardiac | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Cancer | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Tumour | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| TB | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Hepatitis | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Renal Failure | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Diabetes | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Lymphoma | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Tuberculosis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Typhoid | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kidney/Liver | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Asthma | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Hypertensive | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Ischemic Heart Disease | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Weakness | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Others | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Total | 91 |
