President to be back from Hospital on Thursday

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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari, who is under treatment at a Dubai hospital, will be discharged from hospital on Thursday, Presidential spokesman said Wednesday.

President Zardari was flown to the United Arab Emirate and admitted in the hospital earlier this month due to ailment on December 6.

“According to the doctor treating President Asif Ali Zardari in the American Hospital, Dubai all investigations carried out are within normal range and it is planned to discharge the President on Thursday December 15 to rest at home as advised and to continue on his regular heart medication,” the spokesman said.

Spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said in a health bulletin that the physician Dr Khaldoun Taha MD FACC said this in a bulletin issued on Wednesday.

“All investigations of President within normal range,” the health bulletin said.

“Mr Asif Ali Zardari has been admitted to the American Hospital Dubai on Tuesday, 6 December 2011, with a chief complaint of left arm numbness and twitching with a transient episode of loss of consciousness that lasted for few seconds, which was witnessed,” the health bulletin said.

“Upon arrival to the hospital’s emergency room, he was fully awake and conscious with stable and vital signs. Given his history of heart disease, cardiac and neuralgic investigations were carried out which included MRI of the brain, lumbar puncture, 2-D echocardiogram, carotid Doppler and complete and complete blood test,” it said.

The bulletin said that investigation were within normal range and President Zardari was kept for observation for a few more days and is planned to be discharged on December 15 2011 to rest at home as advised and to continue on his regular heart medications.