Tripoli, Aug 30 (ANI): The family of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who is believed to be on the verge of dying, has pleaded with Scottish authorities to send crucial cancer drugs to troubled Tripoli in Libya to help keep him alive.
Megrahi was pictured in a critical condition earlier this week, breathing through an oxygen mask in his mother's home.
His brother, Abdul Nasser al-Megrahi, has said that he had issued a desperate plea to the Scottish government that took the controversial decision to allow the bomber to be returned home after doctors claimed that he was suffering from prostate cancer and had only three months more to live.
Insisting that his brother's medication had been stolen by burglers, Nasser said: "We asked the Scottish Government to send medicines here. Yesterday we were in contact with the Scottish Government by e-mail, and we sent through details of his medical condition," The Scotsman reports.
"Every month we have sent through records. He is really suffering these days. Tomorrow, Libyan doctors will come to see him here. In the past he was treated by German doctors. We hope some foreign doctors can come, as we don't trust local doctors. We are waiting for a response from Scotland. It stands to you to decide. At this moment, it is good if they send treatment," he added.
A Scottish Government spokesman, however, said that it was unaware of the family's request for medical aid.
"Any such request would be one for the National Transitional Council to consider, as the legitimate governing authority in Libya," he added.
Megrahi's son Khaled said that his father was close to death, and drifts in and out of a coma.
Megrahi, who is the only person convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, was freed from the Scottish prison in August 2009, and received a hero's welcome in Libya. He has been surviving from over two years now. (ANI)
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