A change of heart?: Stolen equipment resurfaces at hospital
Hospital administration takes back case against employees.
The equipment had been missing from the hospital’s store for many weeks.PHOTO: FIC.GOP.PK
FAISALABAD:
Surgical equipment that had been stolen from the Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology (FIC) reappeared at the hospital on Thursday night. Unidentified people left a shopping bag carrying expensive stents used in heart surgeries at the entrance of the hospital.
The equipment had been missing from the hospital’s store for many weeks.
This had delayed many heart procedures at the hospital, hospital authorities had said.
Surveillance camera footage did not carry clues as to who the people, who had returned the equipment, could be.
The shopping bag was spotted by some patients who alerted the hospital staff on duty.
Police said the unidentified bag apparently caused panic among patients and the hospital staff who immediately informed the police. The bag was opened in front of the police and FIC officials. They found out that it contained all the missing stents.
The trouble began when stents used in heart surgeries went missing from the store when some doctors were about to operate on patients on Monday.
The FIC management contacted Civil Lines police who registered a case on the complaint of FIC Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Muhammad Nadeem Afzal. With the help of surveillance camera footage, police identified and arrested five FIC employees: dispensers Adeel Imran and Imran Abdullah, ward boys Tahir and Naveed Shaukat and watchman Rana Ehsan.
Colleagues of men arrested staged a protest demonstration on Thursday demanding their release.
The FIC management accepted the protesters’ demands and took back the complaint and the men were released.
A departmental inquiry was launched under the supervision of FIC Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Ziaullah.
FIC Medical Superintendent Dr Ziaullah told The Express Tribune that the administration was monitoring the case and would not let any culprit go unpunished.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2014.
Surgical equipment that had been stolen from the Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology (FIC) reappeared at the hospital on Thursday night. Unidentified people left a shopping bag carrying expensive stents used in heart surgeries at the entrance of the hospital.
The equipment had been missing from the hospital’s store for many weeks.
This had delayed many heart procedures at the hospital, hospital authorities had said.
Surveillance camera footage did not carry clues as to who the people, who had returned the equipment, could be.
The shopping bag was spotted by some patients who alerted the hospital staff on duty.
Police said the unidentified bag apparently caused panic among patients and the hospital staff who immediately informed the police. The bag was opened in front of the police and FIC officials. They found out that it contained all the missing stents.
The trouble began when stents used in heart surgeries went missing from the store when some doctors were about to operate on patients on Monday.
The FIC management contacted Civil Lines police who registered a case on the complaint of FIC Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Muhammad Nadeem Afzal. With the help of surveillance camera footage, police identified and arrested five FIC employees: dispensers Adeel Imran and Imran Abdullah, ward boys Tahir and Naveed Shaukat and watchman Rana Ehsan.
Colleagues of men arrested staged a protest demonstration on Thursday demanding their release.
The FIC management accepted the protesters’ demands and took back the complaint and the men were released.
A departmental inquiry was launched under the supervision of FIC Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Ziaullah.
FIC Medical Superintendent Dr Ziaullah told The Express Tribune that the administration was monitoring the case and would not let any culprit go unpunished.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2014.