Hospital turns into battlefield Doctors thrash media men
By Salman Aslam
LAHORE: The Jinnah Hospital tuned into a battlefield when dozens of doctors and paramedics attacked cameramen and journalists covering a protest staged by a family over the death of their patient.
The most unfortunate part of the whole episode was that Prof Dr Javed Akram, Principal Allama Iqbal Medical College/ Jinnah Hospital, reportedly made an announcement through loudspeaker to call an additional force of doctors and paramedics to teach a lesson to the media men. The encouragement made the doctors and paramedics cross all limits of decency and civility. The violent doctors and paramedics also damaged the set up of Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) of some TV channels. Nine journalists of different media organisations sustained injuries at the hands of doctors and students of the AIMC, affiliated with Jinnah Hospital. The doctors broke two cameras and snatched two others.
The doctors first attacked a family protesting against the doctors whose negligence claimed the life of their patient. Meanwhile, two TV channels reached the spot for coverage of the protest but the doctors and paramedics overpowered the journalists and thrashed them.
The injured journalists along with at least 20 journalists started protest against the doctors. A member of the governing body of the Lahore Press Club said the journalists were taken by the police towards the office of Jinnah Hospital Chief Executive Prof Dr Javed Akram. As they reached the emergency ward of the hospital, more than 40 doctors attacked the journalists by locking the doors of the ward. After two hours of this incident, more than 100 doctors and paramedical staff of the hospital went out of the hospital and ransacked three-story office of Saher Cable Networks for not blocking their service. They also injured 10 staff members of the cable network.
Source: The News
Date:4/1/2010
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