Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah expressed his displeasure and shock over the incident of amputating limbs of a 12-year-old girl after a quake in Pangrio, Badin, badly infected her arms and legs while providing her defective medical treatment.
The doctors in Karachi were left with no options but to sever her legs and arms just to save her life.
“This is very serious that the quakes keep on playing with the lives of poor and innocent people.”
A statement on Saturday pointed out that a 12-year-old girl Najma Khaskheli suffered from diarrhea and her father took her to a clinic in Pangrio where she stayed for three days. When she returned home, her arms and legs started swelling. Her father, Hanif, a donkey-cart rider, rushed her daughter to the same quack’s clinic which referred her to Karachi. Having no other option, the doctors in JPMC severed her arms and limbs to save her life.
The chief minister directed the Chief Minister Inspection Team (CMIT) to immediately start inquiry and take interviews of the doctors/quakes who treated the poor girl right from the first day and trace out where it went wrong that the poor girls had to lose her limbs just for her life.
“This is extremely painful and heart-breaking to see a poor girl with bandages on her chopped arms and legs,” he said. “How much anguish, distress and despair the innocent girl would be passing through,” he wondered. “This is a crime against humanity and must be dealt with accordingly,” he demanded.
He urged the CMIT chairman to take it (inquiry) personally and report him within seven days. “I don’t want to spare the quake whosoever he is,” he said.
The chief minister also directed minister health to start crackdown against the quakes in every nook and corner of the province.
