28/03/2018
It's continue fight against injustice......and the crupptt system.
Lately (March 27, 18) a very shameful act was seen in the Services, Hospital Lahore. First of all Negligence and arrogance on part of a Lady Doctor allegedly slapped a Pregnant woman Kiran Saleem who was brought for treatment to her. Later after the quarrel between the brothers of the woman, though settled after negotiations, she calls other doctors, the security staff and the ward boys to beat up the brothers such that one of the brothers was beaten to death. Shame to this Lady Doctor.
It’s a Shame to learn that the doctors, the hospital security staff and the ward boys who resorted to violence and killed one of the brothers. Such a thing is never expected from doctors. It’s a shame to learn about the medical Superintendent Dr. Amiruddin who gave such an irresponsible statement where he states that a security guard was critically wounded, when it was not the case and also claiming that the young doctors were innocent. What a Shame to the entire hospital where the patients and their relatives are ill-treated instead of coming to the assistance of the patients and their attendants.
I foresee another shame in the making. A committee has been made that will probe into the matter. They are expected to give their report. As usual they will try their best to quash the case and justice will never be done. This probe action was played and will be replayed for the umpteenth time. The result will be the same i.e., justice will never be done to the victims family. I foresee that from the very start this committee will try to defend the hospital and the doctors just as the medical superintendent is already doing.
One must remember that a great injustice has been done to the family and attendants of other patients who were also attacked. In great sorrow will the woman will give birth to her child. This will also have effects not only on the mother but also on the child that is to be born. The deceased Sunil belonged to a Christian family. Just in a few days the Christian community is about to celebrate Easter and a murder has taken place. This has really destroyed Easter the Easter Celebrations for all of us.
As a Christian and also as a Priest I will appeal to the effected Christians to be patient and pray for the deceased one, for the mother and child to be born, for the guilty and negligent doctors, for the hospital, security guards for the irresponsible Medical Superintendent and other people involved in the killing. The ones involved in this killing must be immediately suspended and brought to book. Though I have no confidence in the committee formed, I still appeal to them to do proper justice and make a proper inquiry. Inquiries were done for other cases but results never came in. let it not be for this case.
The ideal hospital is that hospital where no sooner the patient is brought to the hospital, the hospital staff at once takes over the care of the patient not the attendants. This is lacking in all our hospitals as the patients need to rely on their attendants. What is happening in our hospitals is that the attendants need to beg and even bribe to get a staff member to see their patient. All our Hospitals especially our government hospitals need to have an extra training on how to run hospitals that will be patient friendly that will consider it a priority to care for the patients.
Fr. Abid Habib
Capuchin House
Karachi
