Tuesday, March 31, 2009
By By Amer Malik and Sajid Bashir
LAHORE:
A total of 110 victims, including seven dead bodies, of Monday’s Manawan firing incident were brought to different public and private hospitals in Lahore. The victims are kept under close observation as well as strict security.
As the shootout between the terrorists and security forces began at Manawan police training centre early morning, an emergency was declared in all the teaching hospitals to provide treatment to remaining 103 patients, who were injured during the deadly battle, and shifted in the hospitals starting from early 8 am to 8 pm till the filing of this report.
The highly trained surgeons and medical professionals had taken excellent care of the patients in both public and private hospitals. The seven victims, who were received dead, were shifted to mortuary, where another four bodies were also shifted directly from Manawan.
However, the government passed clear instructions to all the hospitals not to discharge any patient without clearance by the intelligence and security agencies. Most of the injured patients are policemen, mostly hailing from various districts of Punjab.
The Rescue 1122 ambulances, Edhi and other voluntary ambulance services reached the spot immediately after the gun and grenade battle, which shifted the victims to nearby hospitals including the Services Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Mayo Hospital and Lahore General Hospital and private hospitals including Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital and Shalamar Hospital.
According to the details available with The News, a total of 36 victims including four dead were brought to Services Hospital, 22 victims including two dead were shifted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, 10 injured patients in Mayo Hospital and two patients were referred, rather than directly taken, to Lahore General Hospital, while 42 victims including one dead were taken to Ghurki Hospital. The Ghurki Hospital administration referred two patients, with serious head and chest injuries, to Lahore General Hospital and discharged three patients, with minor injuries, after necessary medical aid. Besides, another 13 injured patients were also brought to Shalamar Hospital, who were later referred to public sector hospitals including Services Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Mayo Hospital after initial medical aid.
The victims, who were received dead in hospitals, included a pedestrian Waseem, 22, in Ghurki Hospital, Ghulam Mohaiyuddin, 27, and Abid Hussain, 22, in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, and four bodies, including Rohail, 22, and three unidentified bodies, were brought to the Services Hospital.
According to details, a total of 32 injured patients are still under treatment at the Services Hospital including Muhammad Asif s/o Muhammad Sharif, 25, Muhammad Kashif, 25, Zahid, 25, Muhammad Raza, 25, Muhammad Asif s/o Muhammad Ali, 25, Muhammad Shoaib, 23, Waqar, 20, Ghulam Hussain, 20, Amir Farooq, 22, Sohail, 22, Sadaqat, 22, Arif Hussain, 19, Safdar Ali, 24, ASP Gul Jawad, 42, Basharat Ali, Muhammad Waseem, Nasir Iqbal 24, Mohsin Shahzad, Muhammad Shahzad, 23, Abbas, 22, Shafique, 22, Abid Ali, 23, Muhammad Ajad, 22, Muhammad Adil, 22, Shakeel Ahmad, Attaullah, Iqbal, Asif Ali, Shabrez, Al-Shaukat, Muhammad Farhan and Zafar Iqbal.
A total of 20 patients are under treatment in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital including Adnan Saeed, 25, Muhammad Afzal, 25, Rafaqat Ali, 20, Shahzad Naveed, 20, Muhammad Naveed, 22, Kashif Shahzad, 19, Muhammad Fayyaz, 20, Awad Anwar, 19, Zeeshan, 23, Muhammad Asif so/Javed Akhtar, 24, Muhammad Ilyas, 27, Imtiaz Ali, 25, Tahir Masood, 25, Ijaz, 20, Allah Ditta, 50, Muhammad Akram, 25, Muhammad Kashif s/o Muhammad Mushtaq, 21, Asif Ali s/o Javed Akhtar, 24, Muhammad Ashfaq, 24 and Muhammad Jaffer, 40.
The FJMC/Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Principal Prof Dr Abdul Majeed Chaudhry said that, out of the 20 admitted patients, one patient’s kidney, ruptured in the attack, was removed and another patient had lost sight in his right eye, while remaining 18 patients were suffering from minor injuries and in stable condition after necessary medical and surgical treatment. However, he said that the biggest challenge for the patients was to endure psychological trauma they underwent during the deadly attack.
A total of 10 patients are under treatment at the Mayo Hospital including Basim, Waqas, Ehsan, Mudassar, Ilyas, Mehmood-ul-Hasan, Ali Akbar, Faryad Hussain, Ghulam Mustafa and Mohsin Iqbal. None of them had any serious injuries as no major operation was conducted upon any of the patients.
Two patients including Kamran and Hasan Bilal, with serious injuries, were operated upon at the Lahore General Hospital referred by Ghurki Hospital.
A total of 36 patients are still under treatment in Ghurki Hospital after three patients were discharged from the hospital.
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