Mystery: Doctor found dead
A female doctor was found died under unexplained circumstances in Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad.
ABBOTABAD:
A female doctor was found died under unexplained circumstances in Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad here on Saturday. She was found in her room where she had been locked for the last four days, hospital and family sources said. According to hospital officials, Dr Saima Akhtar was designated at Surgical Ward A of the hospital and had been absent from duty for the past four days. Medical Superintendent Dr Haroonur Rasheed sent some staff members to her room but found it locked from the inside. After breaking into her room, they found the doctor lying unconscious on the floor. Her body did not show any sign of physical violence but according to the hospital administration, the deceased had applied an injection in her left hand. Sources suggested that she died from an overdose of tranquilizers. Her father, Dr Khalid, said that Akhtar had failed her part one FCPS exam and was constantly under stress. The family has refused to conduct autopsy of the body.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2011.
A female doctor was found died under unexplained circumstances in Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad here on Saturday. She was found in her room where she had been locked for the last four days, hospital and family sources said. According to hospital officials, Dr Saima Akhtar was designated at Surgical Ward A of the hospital and had been absent from duty for the past four days. Medical Superintendent Dr Haroonur Rasheed sent some staff members to her room but found it locked from the inside. After breaking into her room, they found the doctor lying unconscious on the floor. Her body did not show any sign of physical violence but according to the hospital administration, the deceased had applied an injection in her left hand. Sources suggested that she died from an overdose of tranquilizers. Her father, Dr Khalid, said that Akhtar had failed her part one FCPS exam and was constantly under stress. The family has refused to conduct autopsy of the body.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2011.