Power Outage: Probe over four deaths at JPMC
JPMC on September 12 will be conducted by a team set up by the provincial health department.
KARACHI:
An investigation into the four deaths at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on September 12 will be conducted by a team set up by the provincial health department, a senior official told The Express Tribune. The death took place in the neurosurgery intensive care unit after the hospital suffered a long power outage. All four patients, one child and three men, were on the ventilator, which switched off. The hospital did not have power for 13 hours. Three back-up generators could not be used for life-saving functions because the hospital could not pay for diesel. The hospital declined to comment on the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2011.
An investigation into the four deaths at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on September 12 will be conducted by a team set up by the provincial health department, a senior official told The Express Tribune. The death took place in the neurosurgery intensive care unit after the hospital suffered a long power outage. All four patients, one child and three men, were on the ventilator, which switched off. The hospital did not have power for 13 hours. Three back-up generators could not be used for life-saving functions because the hospital could not pay for diesel. The hospital declined to comment on the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2011.