Over the course of 24 hours, eight children who were in critical condition died as they were not provided enough oxygen and subjected to poor conditions in the nursery ward.
A three-member committee has been formed to investigate the deaths.
The nursery ward of the DHQ hospital has 25 beds, however, it was catering to 50 children, with two children on one bed. Also, only five incubators were functioning properly when 20 children were in need of them.
Further, mothers of the deceased infants complained of lack of oxygen in the ward and doctors not catering to the children in critical condition. They accused doctors of either sleeping during their duty or putting nurses in charge.
This is just one of several unfortunate cases in which resources fall short and negligent staff are at fault for the death of infants.
Speaking to Express News, Dr Sikander Warraich of DHQ denied these accusations and said the ICU and nursery were properly supplied with oxygen. He also stated that four doctors were on duty during the night shift and were catering to the medical needs of all the children.
He further explained that of the eight children, six were born prematurely and were in critical condition upon their arrival at DHQ hospital.
Dr Warraich also added that strict action would be taken against those doctors who failed to perform their duties, especially those found to be asleep while on call.
Contrary to the Dr Warraich's statement, Express News correspondent Nafasat Hussain reported that oxygen cylinders were being shifted from one room to another by hospital staff and that the ward capacity was not sufficient for all the children, meaning that doctors could not perform their duties to the best of their abilities.
Plans to expand the hospital are underway with a new building constructed nearby and will be made functional by December 10.
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I have unfortunately work at this hospital during my house job. The old hospital that was made in the british times had such poor maintence. I, myself ended up with the worst bed bugs. Just imagine the poor patients. Understaffed, no supplies and if u had seen the old operation rooms, one would have a heart attack. To top it all of, when the elections were close the PML n leadership made an emergency landing and the hospital staff was forced to open the half undone hospital. Just so they should inaugurate it and get more votes in the election and hence they won.
Its a sadistic masochist cycle. They keep abusing these poor people, do not educate them about their rights, just give them enough to breathe so they do not raise their voice to this tyranny. And, they end up voting for these vultures.
May Allah help us
Lets build Metro bus in Sargodha!
Doctors study, develop their skills and then work day and night knowing the burden of taking care of the now 8+ billion world population rests on their shoulders. Pakistani doctor are well known for their outstanding commitment to medicine throughout the world. I do not think a doctor in pakistan works hard to get this far to just sleep on the job. They are underpaid, overworked and lack appropriate support/funds. This incident is grim reminder of our poor healthcare system despite having many outstanding doctors. Our govt need to allocate more funds for health in the budget instead of wasting resources on useless metro bus projects and building forts for their future generations etc....
Politics of committees = good governance of N-league
Again those who were found guilty should be punished on urgent basis. this has been proved that all angels were died because of negligence of Hospital staff
Mark my word, Shahaz Sharif will take notice, form a committee and you will never hear again of this matter. This is what PML(N) means by good governance