NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s High Commissioner Salman Bashir will visit the Chandigarh hospital on Monday to see the comatose Pakistani prisoner whose condition continued to be critical.

“The high commissioner will be visiting Chandigarh tomorrow to see Sanaullah Ranjay, who is under medical treatment at PGIMER,” Pakistani diplomat Manzoor Ali Memon, one of the three diplomats granted consular access to the prisoner, said on Sunday.

Sanaullah continued to be “critically sick” and in “deep coma”, a medical bulletin of the PGIMER (Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) said.

“He continues to be critically sick in deep coma almost in the same status as yesterday (Saturday) with no neurological improvement. Patient’s metabolic parameters are now settling. The arterial blood gases are satisfactorily maintained on moderate oxygen flow. He continues to be on a ventilator. His blood pressure continues to be maintained with three inotropic drugs,” said S.N. Mathuriya, professor and head of the department of neurosurgery.

Sanaullah, lodged in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal Jail, was critically injured after being attacked by an Indian prisoner on Friday, prompting Islamabad to demand his immediate release and repatriation.