To visit Apollo hospital tomorrow
Srinagar: Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani today reached New Delhi where the renowned chest specialist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai conducted his detailed checkup in Medanta Hospital Gurgaon.
According to Hurriyat (G) spokesman Ayaz Akbar, Geelani has been advised to visit Apollo hospital where Dr Sameer Kaul is scheduled to conduct a thorough examination of the ailing separatist leader. Dr Kaul will be is to see the cause for weight loss, low hemoglobin level and acute chest infection affecting the health of Geelani.
Meanwhile, Akbar has once again appealed all the pro-freedom people to pray for the speedy recovery and safe return of Geelani. According to Hurriyat (G) spokesman, Geelani left for New Delhi today at 1:30 p.m. from Srinagar Airport in a scheduled flight of Jet Airways and he reached at Indira Gandhi International Airport New Delhi at about 3:00 p.m. In the evening Geelani will be taken to a private Hospital situated in Gurgaon where a prior appointment with a renowned chest specialist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai has already been taken. It will be decided after his general checkup by the doctors that whether Geelani Sahab will be admitted in the hospital or not.
Hurriyat said that though Geelani is a patient with multiple ailments with severe chest infection, so doctors have advised many important medical investigations which will be conducted there.
According to the spokesman, when Geelani was about to leave for Airport, hundreds of people assembled at Hyderpora to see off their leader with wet eyes and Geelani thanked them by waving his hand. People there raised slogans in favour of Freedom and Islam. A prayer meeting was immediately held at Hyderpora head office after the Geelani left for airport which was presided by Hurriyat General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Sumji and in which many executive members of Hurriyat participated.
“At the end of the meeting, Sumji said that the Geelani is a unique and daring leader who doesn’t have any substitute and the affectionate attachment that people have shown with respect to the health of Geelani, is very encouraging and which proves that the nation is alive and had not forgotten the sacred cause. The executive body also praised the stand adopted by Geelani with respect to the state government’s offer of providing him a chopper and said that he (Geelani) is a unique character who has always given the preference to the cause over his personality and he will never compromise over these issues.” (KNS)