The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) General Secretary DrQaisarSajjad on Tuesday demanded of the Sindh government to conduct an inquiry into the death of DrFurqan, who allegedly died after denied ventilator facility at Karachi hospitals while suffering from coronavirus. Speaking in a private TV programme, DrQaisarSajjad said that he talked to the Indus Hospital administration and they informed him that there were ventilators available in the hospital. “Nobody knows where to take a coronavirus patient,” he said adding that even a general physician does not know where to refer the virus patient in the city. He said that they had recommended the Sindh government to dedicate ambulances for the purpose who should have details of the hospitals where the virus patients are treated. “It should be directed to the hospitals not to refuse a doctor or his family member suffering from the coronavirus from treatment,” the PMA general secretary said while demanding a five percent quota for the frontline workers in the hospitals. There should be a place for these workers and their families to get treatment in case they suffer from the Covid-19, DrQaisarSajjad said.It is pertinent to mention here a doctor infected with coronavirus lost his life due to non-availability of ventilator in different hospitals of Karachi on Sunday. The latest incident has exposed corruption, mismanagement and healthcare system of the Sindh province as DrFurqan lost his life due to non-availability of ventilators in government hospitals, whereas, the private hospitals have also rejected to take him in as they were already packed with coronavirus patients.
PMA demands inquiry into doctor’s death
