Doctor critical after suffering burns from gas heater

Falls on to a gas-powered heater after an epileptic episode

ABBOTTABAD: A doctor of the Ayub Medical College suffered over 60 per cent burns on her body after she fell on to a gas-powered heater in her room early on Friday morning. However, she had to be shifted to the burns unit in Kharian for treatment since her hospital lacks proper facilities.

Ayub Medical College’s (AMC) Dr Mewish Tariq, who works in the anatomy department, was in her room when she suffered an epileptic episode and fell onto a gas-powered heater at around 12:30am.



She was rushed to the emergency ward of the AMC for treatment where Dr Shahbaz Ali Khan conducted the tracheotomy while Dr Ayesha Khan, under the supervision of Plastic Surgeon Dr Hamid Fazeel, dressed her wounds.

Doctors said that she was in critical condition since over 60 per cent of her body had suffered burns.



After her condition stabilized in the AMC’s intensive care unit (ICU), she was shifted to the burns unit in Combined Medical Hospital Kharian.

With her condition still precarious, the Edhi Centre in Islamabad offered the facility of an air ambulance. However, health officials decided to shift her by road.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 27^th, 2018.