Doctors Hospital offers Imanae’s family Rs 50 million

The Doctors Hospital administration has offered Rs 50 million to the family of Imanae Malik as a settlement, a friend of the family told Daily Times on Tuesday.

It was reported that the hospital administration, along with two politicians and senior officials of the Punjab Health Department, approached the family of Imanae Malik late on Monday night and offered them Rs 50 million as compensation, in return for withdrawing charges against the hospital.

However, the family of the deceased refused the money, saying they were not fighting for money but to punish the hospital for its wrongdoings. However, the family asked the hospital administration to institute a hospital charity and provide free medical services.

Nazar Chohan, the convener of the committee formed by the Punjab chief minister has also said in his report that some doctors including Dr Kamran Cheema were influencing the committee for favouring Doctors Hospital. The committee has proposed that the Doctors Hospital be closed down. A judicial magistrate on Tuesday granted a four-day physical remand for two officials of Doctors Hospital for their alleged involvement in the death Imanae Malik. Investigation Officer SI Muhammad Nawaz brought the General Manager of the hospital Zia Ullah Bokhari and Dr Hafiz Sanaullah before the court in handcuffs. The defense counsel argued that under section 322 of Pakistan Penal Code, the offence of his clients was bailable, adding that the administration of the hospital could not be held responsible for the actions of one doctor.

On the other hand, the prosecution counsel said it was not a case of mere medical negligence but that of murder. He said as the employers, the hospital administration was fully responsible for the negligence of its doctors, and therefore for the death of the three-year-old Imanae. The prosecutor further told Daily Times that the three injections administered to the dead girl were yet to be recovered. He also accused the hospital administration of tampering with the original hospital records, which were yet to be recovered. He said that the two officials could also be a key to the arrest of Dr Sundeep Kumar, the real culprit, who was still at large. Magistrate Sahir Islam heard the arguments of both the parties and later granted a four-day remand and ordered the police to bring the police to bring the accused before the court on December 12.

Daily Times was told that during the course of investigations the Johar Town police had added seven new sections from the Pakistan Penal Code to the first information report.

Source: Daily Times

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