Medics reinstated without waiting for inquiry outcome

LAHORE - The Punjab government has reinstated seven suspended doctors of the Mayo Hospital Lahore on their posts without waiting for recommendations of the newly constituted four-member inquiry committee of senior doctors.

The inquiry report which is yet to be submitted to the competent authority, has reportedly held the re-instated doctors responsible for the death of a young girl, Sadaf Munir at the Mayo Hospital emergency.

According to yet-to be submitted recommendations of the new inquiry committee, there is strong possibility that the girl, an FSc student of the Ayesha Degree College, Timber Market, Shahdra, might have died due to reaction of the low-priced Maxlon injection that was not included in the index of medicines of the Mayo Hospital emergency department.

She died due to anaphlaytic reaction when she was treated with the Maxlon injection, reveal the recommendations.

It has been learnt reliably that during the investigation process, the inquiry committee consulted Professor of Pharmacology, King Edward Medical University, Prof Dr Shabbir Bhatti, who endorsed that the girl had died due to reaction of the said injection.