Files from Benazir Bhutto Hospital land in junk

Documents from the hospital had gone missing three days ago.

RAWALPINDI:

Recently some important official documents along with other files had gone missing from the Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH). Three days later, on Saturday, the police officials recovered them from a junk trader.

Waris Khan Police recovered official documents weighing as much as 200 kilograms from the shop of a junk trader from the area of Kartarpura.

Additional Station House Officer Waris Khan Police Ameer Gondal informed The Express Tribune that the medical superintendent (MS) of Benazir Bhutto Hospital had complained to the police that a good number of official documents had gone missing from the hospital.

The police officer said they carried out search for the files and found them with a “waste-paper shop” in Kartarpura. He said the documents would be handed over to the hospital administration after due process of law.

Most of the recovered files contained the record of doctors working at the hospital. Dr Zaman Khan Niazi, who is the MS at the Benazir Bhutto Hospital, could not be contacted for his version.

However, Principal Rawalpindi Medical College Dr Afzal Farooqi said that police had recovered the files and other documents. The principal said the documents would be taken from police through court.  He said official inquiry would be held to fix the responsible and determine how the files went missing from the official record.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 24^th, 2011.