Five Covid-19 patients die in Pindi

Family of deceased patient fights with RIUKT doctors

RAWALPINDI:

Another five patients infected with novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and under treatment in allied hospitals of Rawalpindi passed away on Wednesday.

The victims were identified as Nasreen Rafique and Nawaz who succumbed to the pathogen in Holy Family Hospital (HFH) while Shamshad Begum and one other succumbed to the pandemic virus in Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT) and Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) respectively.

As of now, some 121 infected patients are being treated in the allied hospitals while 88 of them have been shifted on oxygen. Some 12 patients are on ventilators in a critical condition.

Meanwhile, the health department has jacked up testing of novel coronavirus while more patients are reliant on oxygen therapy during the second wave of the pandemic virus.

Further, the family of the deceased Shamshad had an altercation with the doctors at RIUKT over the untimely provision of information about the victim’s death to the family.

The doctors stopped working to record their protest however the RIUKT management managed to persuade them after an hour or so.

The medical practitioners complained that New Town police personnel were deployed in the healthcare facility but they have been called back. Owing to this, the doctors added that the incident occurred.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 17^th, 2020.