SIALKOT – Unavailability of a surgeon at Daska Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital’s emergency ward resulted in the death of an injured minor girl. Reportedly, labourer Muhammad Awais of village Bhallowali was cleaning his pistol when a bullet hit her five-year-old daughter Iqra. When she was taken to Daska THQ Civil Hospital’s emergency ward, no surgeon was available there.
After hours-long wait for any doctor at the emergency ward of the hospital, some local people gathered there and took the dying girl to a local private hospital. As many as 10 bags of blood were donated by the local people to save her life but she could not survive owing to the delayed treatment.
The hospital’s management said that stern legal action would be taken against all those responsible for the incident.
‘PROTEST AGAINST NAB CHIEF’S REMOVAL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL’: Jamaat-e-Islami central Naib Amir Professor Sirajul Haq has strongly criticised the rulers for protesting against the Supreme Court over the removal of National Accountability Bureau-NAB chief Syed Deedar Hussain, calling it totally unconstitutional.
Addressing the party workers, he said the PPP government was concealing the bitter facts regarding the US drone attacks in Pakistani tribal areas. He added that the US had come up with 1,700 drone attacks on Pakistani tribal areas in which 24,000 tribesmen had been martyred, 29,500 houses and 100 mosques demolished through the missiles fired by the unmanned US spy planes.
He said the people of the tribal areas were also loyal Pakistanis and the US drone attacks were killing them. He said the plunderers of the national wealth should also be brought to task and dealt with iron fist for its recovery from them in the larger national interest. He also alleged that the rulers had already decided to hand over Raymond Davis to America who had killed three people in Lahore.
SURGICAL INDUSTRY SEEKS GOVERNMENT’S HELP: The surgical industry of Sialkot has sought government’s patronage for promoting Sialkot-made surgical instruments. It has also demanded an easy access of surgical instruments’ manufacturers and exporters to the international markets which have a great potential for the consumption of Sialkot-made non-traditional surgical instruments.
Surgical Instruments Manufacturers Association Chairman Waqar Ameen said more than one-century-old surgical industry of Sialkot was in dire need of modern and positive steps for international marketing and brand developing to save its future.
He said the local manufacturers and exporters were being ignored by local and international markets owing to the slackness of governmental institutes due to which the industry lagged behind the developed countries’ surgical industries.
