LAHORE: Pakistani politician Imran Khan left hospital yesterday, two weeks after breaking bones in his back in a fall at a rally for the general election.
The 60-year-old was ordered to remain immobile in bed after he fractured vertebrae and a rib in a tumble from a hoist lifting him to a stage just days before the May 11 election. The leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf electrified much of the campaign with his calls for reform and galvanised young people to vote, but was forced to spend polling day in hospital.
A spokesman for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in Lahore said Khan would stay in his Lahore home for three days and be shifted to his home in Islamabad. “Doctors have advised him rest, for two more weeks.”
A video on the hospital’s Facebook page showed him walking gingerly but unaided from his third-floor room to the exit. He has been fitted with a specially-designed spinal brace which doctors say he will need to wear for some time. Agencies
