Sindh to send ‘tortured’ cadet college student to US for medical treatment

The government will bear all expenses of Ahmed’s treatment, says CM Sindh spokesperson

KARACHI: Days after a medical report revealed that a cadet college student underwent trauma as a probable outcome of torture, the Sindh government has announced to send him to the United States for further medical treatment.

The decision comes after a 10-member medical board, constituted for the health examination of Muhammad Ahmed Hussain, a student in Cadet College Larkana, last week recommended that the patient be sent to the US for further treatment on grounds that the facility of the required surgical process is not available in the country.

“Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has asked the parents of the child to have their travel documents ready for his treatment abroad,” CM House spokesperson told The Express Tribune on Tuesday. The government of Sindh will bear all the expenses of the student’s treatment, he added.



Meanwhile, Ahmed’s father Muhammad Rashid said he had started the process for preparing his family’s travel documents. He, however, said the concerned officials did not give him a date for travelling to the US.

“I am still not sure about the treatment abroad because they have not yet given me a copy of the report,” Rashid said, adding that some officials phoned him and said: “All process, including visa processing, will be done within next two to three weeks.”

Ahmed is currently hospitalised at Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi after he reportedly went unconscious and fought for his life having undergone “severe torture” at the hands of the college staff. Following which a medical board was formed on the directives of Provincial Education Secretary Fazlullah Pechuho to investigate the ‘torture’ claim.