After the Islamabad Police rebuffed a request for security, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) administration has approached a private security company to provide security guards and other necessary defensive gears.
According to hospital sources, the PIMS administration had requested the Islamabad Police to make available police personnel for the hospital’s security, but the police blatantly refused to entertain the request, arguing that guarding such a vast area would require a lot of resources including manpower which they lack.
After a senior cardiologist was fatally shot in the head by unidentified assailants on the premises of the hospital recently and a newborn went missing a month ago, the PIMS administration has been scrambling to tighten the security for the hospital to avoid recurring of such episodes in the future.
The hospital sources said that the private security company would provide 41 guards, a security officer and four vehicles to perform round-the-clock duty in shifts.
As part of new security measures, 52 security cameras would also be installed at different places on the premises of the hospital.
Similarly, at least 10 security pickets will be set up at different locations of the hospital with deputing two precise firers at each picket.
The sources said that the Special Branch of the police has only provided walkthrough gates to the hospitals, which will be installed in front of Emergency Department, OPD, Children Ward, General Ward and Officers’ Ward.
