Govt employee’s kidney fraudulently removed

Employees union demands FIR against hospital

QUETTA:

The kidney of a poor government employee who went to a private hospital for stone removal surgery was removed fraudulently in Quetta, Balochistan.

Several days after the surgery, when his condition deteriorated, he was taken to a hospital in Karachi where medical examination revealed that the patient had only one kidney. The doctors also discovered that his only kidney had also stopped working thus jeopardizing the patient’s life.

Sources told The Express Tribune that Imran Masih is a Class-4 employee in the Balochistan Assembly who had developed kidney stones and underwent surgery at a private hospital on Airport Road.

During the stone removal surgery, however, doctors at the hospital allegedly removed his entire kidney fraudulently. For several days after the operation, the private hospital continued to perform dialysis free of cost and the hospital also provided him with pick and drop but still his condition deteriorated rapidly. On this his family took him to Karachi.

In Karachi doctors discovered that Imran Masih’s kidney has been removed and due to the substandard surgery his other kidney had also stopped working.

Zafar Rind, leader of Balochistan Assembly Employees Union, said that the family of Imran Masih had approached the private hospital located at the Airport Road for registration of FIR against surgeons involved in the surgical procedure.

They also approached the police but the latter refused to register an FIR ‘due to several days of delay’.

Zafar Rind said that efforts are being made to register a case against the hospital management at Bijli Ghar Road police station.

“If police does not register a case, the Assembly Employees Union will go for a protest,” he said.

He maintained that legal action should be taken against those who were playing with human lives just to make money out of it.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2021.