Doctors’ kidnapping: Benazir Bhutto University Larkana tightens security
The management hired more security guards and asked the government for extra security.
SUKKUR:
To dispel the growing anxiety among doctors over increasing kidnappings, the management of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SBBMU) Larkana tightened their security measures to avoid any unfortunate incident.
The vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Akbar Haider Soomro, said that although providing security was the responsibility of the government but they too took some steps on their own.
The university management held a meeting on Saturday to go over the security steps. Soomro said that the university arranged for more security guards and bought a vehicle. “The guards are not as well trained as the police, so we are relying on the government to provide extra security,” he said. Talking about the kidnapping investigation of three doctors, who were kidnapped from Larkana and Sukkur 15 days ago, he said that he was not aware of any development other than what he read in the newspapers.
On November 20 two doctors, Dr Imtiaz Wagan of Dow University of Health Sciences and Dr Azhar Ali Shah of Ghulam Mohammad Mahar Medical College Sukkur were abducted from Jacobabad. Shah used to run a private clinic in Jacobabad on weekends.
Four days later, Dr Abdul Rab Sangi and his driver Wajid Sangi were kidnapped from near Larkana, while they going on their way to a village for the anti-polio drive.
According to the Pakistan Medical Association officials specialist doctors will not visit the cities in upper Sindh because of security concerns. This will deprive the people living in rural areas of quality medical checkup in their own cities.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2011.
To dispel the growing anxiety among doctors over increasing kidnappings, the management of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SBBMU) Larkana tightened their security measures to avoid any unfortunate incident.
The vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Akbar Haider Soomro, said that although providing security was the responsibility of the government but they too took some steps on their own.
The university management held a meeting on Saturday to go over the security steps. Soomro said that the university arranged for more security guards and bought a vehicle. “The guards are not as well trained as the police, so we are relying on the government to provide extra security,” he said. Talking about the kidnapping investigation of three doctors, who were kidnapped from Larkana and Sukkur 15 days ago, he said that he was not aware of any development other than what he read in the newspapers.
On November 20 two doctors, Dr Imtiaz Wagan of Dow University of Health Sciences and Dr Azhar Ali Shah of Ghulam Mohammad Mahar Medical College Sukkur were abducted from Jacobabad. Shah used to run a private clinic in Jacobabad on weekends.
Four days later, Dr Abdul Rab Sangi and his driver Wajid Sangi were kidnapped from near Larkana, while they going on their way to a village for the anti-polio drive.
According to the Pakistan Medical Association officials specialist doctors will not visit the cities in upper Sindh because of security concerns. This will deprive the people living in rural areas of quality medical checkup in their own cities.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2011.