11 Peshawar school attack survivors shifted to Karachi hospital for treatment

Sindh government promises cooperation and to bear expenses for the treatment of the injured

Sameer Mandhro February 18, 2015

An official directs ambulances carrying APS school students and teacher as they arrive at the Aga Khan Hospital for treatment. PHOTO: PPI

KARACHI: As many as eleven people, who had been injured in the Peshawar school attack, were shifted to the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi on Wednesday for further treatment.

Those shifted include a teacher Zulfikar and 10 students including were Ans Idrees, Muhammad Nafay, Amir Muhammad, Amir Amin, Umair Khan, Mubashir, Muhammad Zunain, Muhammad Aftab, Shahrukh and Maaz. Each of them is accompanied by two family members.

According to Abid Raza Bangash, the president of Shuhada Wo Ghazi Forum, his organisation had requested the government to re-examine the injured as they were not in stable condition in a Peshawar hospital. However, doctors at Aga Khan hospital described the condition of the patients as stable.

Bangash added that a total of 54 people will be shifted to Karachi to receive further treatment. “Of the 54, 21 are in serious condition.”

He said that the remaining 43 will be shifted to Karachi over the next four days.

Meanwhile, the Sindh government has promised complete cooperation, and has even offered to bear expenses for the treatment of the injured. Health minister Jam Mahtab Hussain Dahar and health secretary Iftikhar Shallwani also visited the injured at the hospital.