Parliamentary Secretary MPA Khurram Gulfaam’s slipping into coma at Services Hospital has raised the authorities from their slumber regarding the poor healthcare conditions in the public sector, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Gulfaam was admitted in the Services Hospital for a minor surgery to remove a tumor. However he later went to coma raising many eye brows and questions over the efficiency of the doctors concerned at a prime facility in the public sector.
This has initiated a probe after pressure from the top and the Services Hospital is looking in to the incident. The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) also started probing into the matter whereby Gulfam slipped into a state of coma a day after undergoing a minor surgical procedure. In pursuance of the Minimum Service Delivery Standards (MSDS) prescribed by the PHC, the hospital administration has constituted a ten-member committee of medical experts headed by Prof Dr Azizur Rehman to investigate the adverse event in detail.
The committee shall also examine whether patients’ safety related standards and protocols prescribed in the MSDS were being properly followed in this case or not. Services Hospital MS Dr Rehana told Pakistan Today that it was a normal surgery but complications developed later on. “Patient’s slipping into coma is a separate thing than his surgery and both have no correlation at all. The matter is being probed by senior doctors of the hospital and anything for sure can only be said after their findings but there was no negligence on the part of any doctor,” she added.
