Need for pragmatism
October 31, 2008 TWO incidents have occurred in Lahore that need to be investigated by the government. The first one is the arrest of a doctor by police for his professional negligence that resulted in the death of a patient who was administered wrong blood group during transfusion. This is without doubt a criminal act and generally speaking is a sad commentary on the state of our public hospitals and the medical community that most of time is indifferent to the plight of the patients, yet the arbitrary manner in which the concerned doctor was arrested, provoking hundreds of medics to take to the streets was perhaps uncalled for. Conducting a departmental inquiry and punishing those involved according to the rules would have been a better way.
