KARACHI: Doctors at the Liaquat National Hospital on Thursday allowed Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Rashid Godil, who had been critically wounded in a drive-by shooting a fortnight ago, to go home, but his family desired him to stay longer at the facility citing ‘better nursing care’, said hospital sources.

They added Mr Godil was satisfactorily stable and could recuperate further at home if he so desired. However, when doctors offered to his family that they could take him home, the relatives said he should stay longer at the hospital.

“They want him to stay more here as they believe the nursing care available at the hospital was much better than home,” the sources said.

Officials at the hospital, however, did not comment whether Mr Godil’s family cited security reasons as well for their decision.

Mr Godil sustained five bullets in the deadly shooting in Bahadurabad on August 18, which killed his driver and wounded him critically.

The doctors said Mr Godil had sustained two bullet wounds in the neck and three others in the chest and abdomen. One bullet that affected his right lung was still in the body and would stay there as he was not that stable to be operated upon, they added.

Also read: MQM's Rashid Godil critical after Karachi attack

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2015

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