A female patient was found lying in the corridor of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC)’s main building. According to her mother, the woman was slashed with a sickle by her husband, causing serious wounds on her head and neck as well as her limbs. She and her family are from Sanghar and belong to the lower caste of Hindus called Bheel, working as agricultural workers in Gadap Town. The incident took place on April 18, but the police are reluctant to register the First Information Report against the accused husband. The mother of the woman said that the police had arrested the accused on the day of the incident and kept him in the lockup overnight, but they released him the next day. Now the Gadap Town police have asked them to produce a medico-legal certificate for the registration of the case, but it has not been issued by the JPMC authorities. The woman was treated in the neurosurgery ward and discharged by the doctors at the JPMC after a few days. The family is poor and illiterate, and the woman’s uncle, who was also at the hospital, lost his mobile phone when someone snatched it among other valuables one night. The woman has a 14-month-old boy who is suffering from starvation because of non-availability of mother’s milk. Her mother has been providing the boy powered milk, but the child is anaemic and weak. The family is in dire need of help, and they also need legal support from the police, which has so far been denied.
