ISLAMABAD: A student of Islamabad’s Comsats University expired due to a cardiac arrest on Friday, triggering a protest on the campus by students who held the administration responsible for the young death.
As per students, death could have been avoided if a timely provision of medical treatment was given to the boy.
“Unfortunately a student of BBA 2nd semester at CU, Islamabad who got low blood pressure and cardiac arrest has died due to unavailability of ambulance on time, moreover a private car was not allowed to enter in the university,” read a statement issued by a body of the university’s students.
“So called policies by the management took an innocent life today,” it said.
As per the students, Inam suffered a heart attack and when fellow students asked the university administration to call an ambulance, they refused.
They added that multiple requests were made but every time it was denied and meanwhile Inam remained in intense pain for half an hour.
The university, through a press release, rebuffed the allegations of delay saying that the student had been provided emergency treatment at the university’s medical centre.
“The student suffered from a massive cardiac arrest and was immediately rushed to the Medical Centre where he was administered emergency medical treatment by trained medical professionals,” read the press release.
“After administering emergency treatment, the student was rushed to National Institute of Health Medical Complex, Islamabad, for further medical treatment. However, the hospital authorities declared the student dead on arrival,” it added.
“The student’s family refused the postmortem of deceased student and the subsequently the body was handed over to the family.”
