July 19, 2005	Tuesday	Jumadi-us-Sani 11, 1426

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ISLAMABAD, July 18: Maldivian Health Minister Aminah Rasheeda was discharged from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Monday evening after regaining her health. Dr Waseem Khawaja, assistant director Pims, told Dawn that Ms Rasheeda was treated for gastroenteritis and left in “stable condition”.

Ms Rasheeda was taken ill after an official dinner and was taken to hospital from her hotel on Sunday.

Arrangements made by Pakistan to take care of the health of delegates of the just concluded Saarc health ministers conference were put to test on Sunday when the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) received the first patient.

Sources in the hospital told Dawn that the Maldivian health minister was brought to the special cell set up to attend to the visiting guests suffering from fever and nausea.

She complained of nausea followed by fever after taking dinner at the Foreign Office on Saturday night which marked the conclusion of the two-day Saarc conference on addressing health and population problems jointly.

Doctors at a local hotel where she was staying diagnosed her condition as getroenteritis but she refused to be hospitalized.

However, she had to be taken to Pims facility after her condition deteriorated.

Meanwhile, the management of a local hotel has clarified that its house doctor had diagnosed her ailment correctly as gastroenteritis and not typhoid as reported in the press.

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