The Sindh High Court has directed jail authorities to provide all necessary medical facilities to an undertrial prisoner who had tested positive for Covid-19.

The 73-year-old prisoner, Akbar Minhas, through his lawyer moved the SHC seeking bail on medical grounds.

His counsel Asad Ashfaq argued that besides being a patient of Covid-19, the petitioner had also been suffering from multiple ailments and needed urgent medical attention and rehabilitative care.

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