Harsh punishment: YDA wants FIRs against doctors in Vehari withdrawn
Case was registered after eight infants died due to lack of oxygen in incubators.
LAHORE:
Young Doctors’ Association Punjab has asked the provincial government to withdraw a case against doctors accused of negligence in Vehari.
The case was registered after eight infants died due to lack of oxygen in incubators at the district headquarters hospital in Vehari.
YDA officials at a press conference at the Services Hospital on Tuesday said that what had happened was unfortunate but it was a result of system failure.
Registering a murder case against doctors for it was unfair, they said. YDA office bearers said, “We have written to the government several times about the terrible conditions we work under... the government does not take action... but when an incident like this takes place, doctors are made the scapegoat.”
They said five teams of YDA doctors were working in flood-hit areas.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2014.
Young Doctors’ Association Punjab has asked the provincial government to withdraw a case against doctors accused of negligence in Vehari.
The case was registered after eight infants died due to lack of oxygen in incubators at the district headquarters hospital in Vehari.
YDA officials at a press conference at the Services Hospital on Tuesday said that what had happened was unfortunate but it was a result of system failure.
Registering a murder case against doctors for it was unfair, they said. YDA office bearers said, “We have written to the government several times about the terrible conditions we work under... the government does not take action... but when an incident like this takes place, doctors are made the scapegoat.”
They said five teams of YDA doctors were working in flood-hit areas.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2014.