Only six ventilators at DHQ Hospital Rawalpindi

The medica­l device provid­es a patien­t with oxygen when they are unable to breath­e on their own

• Nishter Hospital: 18 ICU ventilators out of order

  Hospital administration had bought 12 ventilators last year

• Minor dies due to lack of ventilator

  Family says no hospital in the province has the facility

• Five suspected swine flu patients put on ventilators

  Kept in isolation ward owing to highly contagious nature of disease