Baby girl dies after being 'denied entry' at Civil Hospital during Bilawal visit

[Pindi Boy]

Pakistan Peoples Party's chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. PHOTO: REUTERS

KARACHI: A ten-month-old girl died on Wednesday as doors of one of Karachi’s biggest public medical facility, Civil Hospital, were closed as part of security measures taken for Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s visit.

Bisma breathed her last after her parents security guards refused them entry to the Civil Hospital’s emergency department for over an hour. “I brought my 10-month-old daughter who was suffering from a breathing illness to the Civil Hospital’s Emergency Ward but security guards did not allow me inside,” Bisma’s father told reporters.

The parents of the deceased girl expressed their angst over the unfair treatment of the hospital’s authorities and demanded justice from the government.

Doors of the hospital were closed for patients and people were caught in hours-long traffic jam as part of security measures taken for the PPP chairman and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah’s visit. The PPP leaders were invited to visit a newly built trauma centre in the government facility which is most visited by the city’s impoverish citizens to seek cheap medical treatment.

However, a Bilawal House spokesperson denied the news. “Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s visit lasted just for 15 to 20 minutes and the road to the trauma center was different than that of Civil Hospital where some news channels have reported about the girl’s death,” Jameel Soomro said.

“Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited the trauma center, inaugurated and returned within 15 to 20 minutes without any traffic jams or protocol,” he added. Further, the spokesperson upheld that Bilawal does not need security protocol and some “elements are targeting his visits and generating negative media coverage.”

Further, Bilawal ordered the Sindh government to conduct an impartial inquiry into the incident.

“A transparent inquiry should be conducted into the reported death and complete findings should be made public,” the PPP chairman said. “Anyone found responsible must be taken to task.”

Later, speaking to newsmen after the inauguration of the trauma centre outside the Civil Hospital, Qaim Ali Shah said the newly built centre is the biggest facility in the province.

The chief minister further said the trauma centre is a gift to the people of Karachi from PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and its co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.

Baby girl dies after being 'denied entry' at Civil Hospital during Bilawal visit - The Express Tribune

Why this khusri is still enjoying VIP protocol?????
BTW yar pattta lgao itni zyada srdi me gas or bijli ke baghair Bhutto zinda hai ya ..............????

 

[Nefarious]

What a disgusting state of affairs. Poor soul.

 

[MAhsan]

How unfortunate is that. Few days back, we were crying over death of 144 innocent lives by the savages. I wonder if that 10 months old butterfly will be considered equal to those 144, as her murderer is no different then those savages. The only difference is that he is a politician.

 

[ghazi52]

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Welcome to Pakistan
Dear Bilawal Bhutto, with your protocol, you undermine the value of a common citizen’s life

By Jibran Nasir

A baby girl died today as she was refused emergency treatment while you inaugurated the medical facility.


Dear Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,

Let me start with appreciating the good work you did today. Thank you for taking out the time and inaugurating the new trauma facility at Civil Hospital. I am sure many citizens will benefit from it. And now let me address the more pressing issue. Ababy girl died today as she was refused emergency treatment while you inaugurated the medical facility.

I may not be able to find a better and grimmer illustration of the word ‘irony’.


When you are chairman of one of the biggest political parties of Pakistan, you cannot act unaware of the difficulties your protocol causes to citizens. If you are out there to serve then do your job. You were not obliged under the law to become the Co-Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). You may have been under political and family pressure, but you still volunteered for the job. You kept the job and you enjoy the perks which come with it, be it festivals or jalsas, and I am sure there are a lot of pressures and scrutiny that come with it as well.

There are possible death threats as well, which you invited when you willingly signed up for the job. There is a price of glory which you are out to achieve. There is always a price to pay for such things. But the important question is that do you realise the responsibilities which come with the job? Do you realise the gravity of your ignorance, or if I may, your arrogance? Do you realise the message you are sending down to the common men and women by failing to take cognisance of obvious things?

A child died today at the gates of a hospital. No one is saying you yourself did not allow the child inside. Perhaps if the child had been brought in in front of you, you may have escorted her inside yourself. But you cannot act unaware of the circumstances which result when your security advisers order your guards to keep the public far away. Difficulties to patients was a reasonably foreseeable outcome of your protocol, given how stopping traffic and harassing citizens is the most common and inevitable outcome of every security protocol. And that is the case with every security protocol. Be it your protocol or the protocol of the prime minister of Pakistan or the protocol of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Pakistan.

VIP treatment at the expense of the common men and women has become a cultural phenomenon. Walk on God’s earth with humility and don’t forget that your prime task is to serve the people with the job you have undertaken and voluntarily signed up for. Those with security protocols refuse to be patient, refuse to stand in line and refuse to follow rules. How dare any of you tell us that your time is more important than ours or your life is more precious than that of the common citizens of this country?
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Perhaps if those who carry security protocols and specially their predecessors who did the same had dedicated more time to making Pakistan safe as opposed to making themselves safer, things would have been different in my country. I am not unaware of assassination attempts on politicians in the past. Quite a few have lost their lives but they signed up for the job. I have refused government and private security on various occasions, despite receiving several threats and I am not bringing that up to compare myself with you in anyway, but to make a simple point that Pakistan will not become better by making one life safe, it will become better with treating all lives equally.

The least you can do for now is open yourself to any investigation and legal proceedings arising out of this negligence and apologise to the parents of that child in person, like you should apologise to several others who have lost their kids to lack of medical facilities in Sindh during the last seven years since your party has been in power. I wish you get the glory you seek but I hope it is not at the expense of our lives.

Yours sincerely,

A common citizen.
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[truthseeker2010]

What the fish did I just read. :/. Pity on the management of the hospital. Why would you give so much protocols to such a brainless person. And he wants to rule Pakistan one day. Seriously?
I don't know when we Pakistani will start taking a stand and raising our voice. Bus trend chala Dene se Kia ho ga? They can ban Twitter one day in Pakistan just like they banned YouTube. Phir Kia ho ga? START COMING OUT OF HOUSES AGAINST THE EVILS. :/

you start from coming from US.......

 

[Areesh]

And now the khusra has asked for an inquiry into the event. What an easy way out!!!

Abay chutye apnai baap ko bol kuch paisai dai dai bachi kai parents ko. Itna paisa jo loota hai is mulk ka us main sai kuch dai dai.

 

[truthseeker2010]

And now the khusra has asked for an inquiry into the event. What an easy way out!!!

Abay chutye apnai baap ko bol kuch paisai dai dain bachi kai parents ko. Itna paisa jo loota hai is mulk ka us main sai kuch dai dai.

The Irony is that inquiry will be against the DOCTOR who said that if it had came 10 mins before, the child would have survived.

 

[gangsta_rap]

this bilawal character should be put on the guillotine and treated french revolution style. enough with the bhutto BS.

 

[HAIDER]

Its VIP culture all over Pakistan . All Pakistani police are providing security to these VIPs , that's the reason police can not be found in streets and roads.

 

[F.O.X]

Bhuto tu Zinda hay per Awaam Mar gai hay.... Yayy democrazy.

btw I hope you guys keep giving your precious votes to the like of PPP, MQM & PMLN I am sure after one century or two this problem of VIP culture will be solved, fingers crossed.

 

[Curious_Guy]

This does Saddens but what saddens more is PPP ministers remarks about the incident .

 

[mr42O]

 

[Moonlight]

you start from coming from US.......

Hahah thank you for proving me right. I knew someone is going to pass comment related to my living in USA. You guys don't want to realize how we are helping pakistan while living aboard.

 

[GoldenRatio1618]

Bilalwal doing act of hinduism just check this video at facebook is it Islamic way ? or Islam give permission of these none Muslims acts?

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=950606288326034&id=784100728309925

 

[Moonlight]

Wow. I can't believe he said it. :/ matlab gareeb ka kutta kutta aur ameer ka kutta Tommy.