Our nation’s mentality is worsening day by day
RAWALPINDI: According to recent news, 12 patients have died and more than 25 doctors were injured as protesting lawyers broke into the emergency ward of the PIC in Lahore.
Before lawyers stormed the PIC on Wednesday, one of them shared a live video in which he threatened doctors. In his video he taunts by saying, “Look at the sea of lawyers. Today, doctors will have to undergo bypass and have stents inserted in them,” and “We will enter the hospital and beat doctors.”
A group of lawyers stormed the emergency ward, destroyed public property, set a police vehicle on fire and attacked the provincial minister. Videos of the incident shared on Twitter showed police officials, dressed in riot gear were rendered helpless as a horde of lawyers violating the law broke into the entrance of the hospital. One woman died and several patients were harmed at the emergency ward of the hospital as a result of the confusion and fear that spread inside the facility as the lawyers barged into the building.
Our nation’s mentality is worsening day by day. We are acting more like animals in a jungle than humans in a society. I do not see any worse conditions than this. Officials are responsible for maintaining justice and saving the lives of people are destroying both elements with their own hands. It is difficult to say who is doing what and who is supposed to do what.
I do not have any hope that recommended actions will be practised but hope keeps the world going.
Abdul Muqtadir
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2019.
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