Visiting rights: Guarding against security personnel

Hospital guard throws sick child’s father out of window.

RAHIM YAR KHAN:

A Sheikh Zayed Hospital security guard tortured the father of a sick child, who was admitted to the hospital’s children’s ward on Sunday.

The guard allegedly pushed the father out of a ward window when he refused to leave the room and following an altercation between the pair in the hospital corridor.

According to hospital officials, Hafiz Colony resident Manzoor Sindhu’s eight-month-old son Bilal was brought to the hospital on Saturday evening and was in the children’s ward on bed 49. Manzoor said that his son was extremely sick and had been vomiting all day.

On Saturday, a drip was being administered to the child, while he sat in his fathers lap. According to Sindhu, he was asleep on a stool when security guard Sajid came up to him and pushed him off the chair for sleeping in the ward.

“My son was in my lap at the time and could have gotten severely hurt,” Sindhu said, adding that he told the security guard he would have him suspended.

“I had been up with him for hours last night and then in the morning so I fell asleep while we were waiting for the doctor to examine him again,” he said.

The altercation led to the security guard, Waseem, pushing Sindhu out of an open window.

Doctors, nurses and other guards condemned the incident and DCO Ahmed Javed Qazi has ordered action against the guard. Qazi came to the hospital with Sindhu but another security guard refused to let him see the medical superintendent.

“The poor man told me about what had happened and I was outraged. I followed him to the hospital to speak to those in-charge but I was turned away,” Qazi said.

Sindhu has submitted a written complaint to Sheikh Zayed principal Prof Muhammad Saeed and medical superintendent Capt (retd) Mushtaq Ahmed to take action against the guard.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 4^th,  2011.