‘Medical negligence’: Relatives protest as woman dies at a Pindi hospital

Claim the patient died due to negligence, doctors refute allegation.

RAWALPINDI:

Relatives of a woman, who died at the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on Friday, protested against the doctors and management of the hospital.

The woman, identified as Farzana and mother of three and a resident of Bani had been brought to the emergency unit of the hospital with respiratory complications.

Shehbaz, the brother of the deceased, said that he had taken his sister to the hospital for routine check-up.



“Her condition deteriorated soon after a doctor at the emergency unit gave her the injection and within minutes she was pronounced dead,” he claimed.

The relatives after the incident stormed the emergency ward and ransacked furniture and smashed window panes. They also manhandled the doctors. The protesters placed the body outside the ward and staged a sit-in. They refused to take the body home till registration of an FIR against the doctor.

Meanwhile, the police assured the protesters that the FIR will be registered against the doctor.



Meanwhile, the doctors on duty claimed that they did not give any wrong injection to the woman. “We even did not check her up,” cried a doctor while confronting the protesters.

Acting Medical Superintendent at the hospital, Sohail Ijaz, when contacted, claimed that he was unaware of any such incident happened at the hospital. He, however, said that he will order an investigate into the matter .

Published in The Express Tribune, June 22^nd, 2013.