Thrashing at PIMS: Second incident fuels doctors’ protest
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The second incident in two days took place on Friday at the surgical ward-3 where the attendants of a patient, brought from Kashmir, died of head injuries, thrashed the doctors. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The doctors and nurses at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) continued their protest on second consecutive day following another incident of thrashing of one of their colleage by attendants of a patient on Friday.
The doctors who were already agitating over an incident that took place on Thursday in which the attendants of a patient thrashed a doctor and a nurse. The patient, who was brought from Abbotabad died of injuries.
The second incident in two days took place on Friday at the surgical ward-3 where the attendants of a patient, brought from Kashmir, died of head injuries, thrashed the doctors.
While reacting over the two incidents, doctors threatened to resign if they were not provided security and the three persons who allegedly thrashed doctors on Thursday were not arrested immediately.
The head of Neurosurgery Department and Chairman of the Management Committee of the institute Prof Dr Khaleequz Zaman told The Express Tribune that the patient brought from Azad Kashmir on Friday was injured in a road accident some four days ago.
“He was critical; bed was not available; we admitted him in the surgical ward, on a stretcher; but he died due to the severity of injuries,” the chairman said.
After the death of the patient, the attendants thrashed the doctors accusing them that they did not treat him well that caused his death, he said adding “Such incidents are becoming common in the hospital due to which the staff is feeling insecurity.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 31st, 2014.
The doctors and nurses at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) continued their protest on second consecutive day following another incident of thrashing of one of their colleage by attendants of a patient on Friday.
The doctors who were already agitating over an incident that took place on Thursday in which the attendants of a patient thrashed a doctor and a nurse. The patient, who was brought from Abbotabad died of injuries.
The second incident in two days took place on Friday at the surgical ward-3 where the attendants of a patient, brought from Kashmir, died of head injuries, thrashed the doctors.
While reacting over the two incidents, doctors threatened to resign if they were not provided security and the three persons who allegedly thrashed doctors on Thursday were not arrested immediately.
The head of Neurosurgery Department and Chairman of the Management Committee of the institute Prof Dr Khaleequz Zaman told The Express Tribune that the patient brought from Azad Kashmir on Friday was injured in a road accident some four days ago.
“He was critical; bed was not available; we admitted him in the surgical ward, on a stretcher; but he died due to the severity of injuries,” the chairman said.
After the death of the patient, the attendants thrashed the doctors accusing them that they did not treat him well that caused his death, he said adding “Such incidents are becoming common in the hospital due to which the staff is feeling insecurity.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 31st, 2014.