Hitting back: PIMS admin denies hiding bodies, concealing facts
Prof Javed Akram vows to resign if allegations proved true.
ISLAMABAD:
The top management of the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University on Tuesday clarified that the hospital is not hiding any bodies of protesters who allegedly died during clashes with police on Constitution Avenue.
The varsity’s vice-chancellor, Prof Javed Akram, at a press briefing denied all allegations against the hospital regarding hiding seven bodies of protesters and changing the postmortem reports of two Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) workers who died from bullet wounds.
Akram said PAT and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers continue to give false statements alleging that the administration of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hid bodies and helped security personnel in disappearing the injured workers.
“By spreading such baseless news, these people (sit-in leaders) are shattering public trust in the hospital. It took years to build this trust which these people without any evidence are shattering in a day,” he said.
“I will resign from my post if the allegations against the hospital administration of hiding bodies are proved. I invite all TV channels to go around the hospital building with their cameras and if they get a slight clue about the bodies I assure you all that I will resign,” he said.
Akram informed that the hospital had received 354 injured people and only three bodies—one of the protesters had already died from drowning and two others died in the hospital after suffering bullet wounds.
All-out efforts were made to extract all the bullets from the injured but to avoid complications, some were left inside the bodies of the injured, contended Akram.
“Now they are making it controversial by claiming that the government had pressured the hospital administration to hide all the facts which is completely irrational,” he said.
The hospital chief further made it clear that the hospital mortuary had a capacity to keep six bodies at a time therefore it is impossible to exceed the limit.
Akram appealed to PAT and PTI workers to stop playing politics on the dead and damaging the hospital’s credibility.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2014.
The top management of the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University on Tuesday clarified that the hospital is not hiding any bodies of protesters who allegedly died during clashes with police on Constitution Avenue.
The varsity’s vice-chancellor, Prof Javed Akram, at a press briefing denied all allegations against the hospital regarding hiding seven bodies of protesters and changing the postmortem reports of two Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) workers who died from bullet wounds.
Akram said PAT and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers continue to give false statements alleging that the administration of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hid bodies and helped security personnel in disappearing the injured workers.
“By spreading such baseless news, these people (sit-in leaders) are shattering public trust in the hospital. It took years to build this trust which these people without any evidence are shattering in a day,” he said.
“I will resign from my post if the allegations against the hospital administration of hiding bodies are proved. I invite all TV channels to go around the hospital building with their cameras and if they get a slight clue about the bodies I assure you all that I will resign,” he said.
Akram informed that the hospital had received 354 injured people and only three bodies—one of the protesters had already died from drowning and two others died in the hospital after suffering bullet wounds.
All-out efforts were made to extract all the bullets from the injured but to avoid complications, some were left inside the bodies of the injured, contended Akram.
“Now they are making it controversial by claiming that the government had pressured the hospital administration to hide all the facts which is completely irrational,” he said.
The hospital chief further made it clear that the hospital mortuary had a capacity to keep six bodies at a time therefore it is impossible to exceed the limit.
Akram appealed to PAT and PTI workers to stop playing politics on the dead and damaging the hospital’s credibility.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2014.