Child patient dies in ambulance-truck collision on highway

Accident claims one life, left six injured

HYDERABAD:

In yet another accident of an ambulance on a highway, in a short span of four days, another child patient being shifted from one city to another for urgent medical treatment lost her life.

The accident, which claimed the life of a child Owaisa Jatoi and left six injured, happened in Nau Dero in Larkana district on Friday.

The police said the ambulance was struck by a mini truck whose driver escaped from the spot leaving the vehicle behind. Three women and as many men were injured, who were shifted to Chandka Hospital Larkana.

The Jatoi family belonged to village Sadullah Jatoi in Sukkur. They were taking their child to Larkana in an ambulance but met with an accident on the way. The police have yet to register the FIR.

Earlier, on January 8, two-year-old Uroosa Fatima, daughter of Riaz Khaskheli, 55 years old Panah Khaskheli, wife of Muhamamd Ameen Khaskheli, and the ambulance driver Javed Ali Wagan were killed an accident with a truck.

That ambulance, which was also shifting a patient from Larkana to Karachi, met a fatal accident on the Indus Highway in Jamshoro district. Four persons were injured.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 13^th, 2024.