RAHIM YAR KHAN/SUKKUR: Nasrullah Gadani, reporter of a Sindhi newspaper, was shifted to Karachi by way of air ambulance in a really crucial situation on Wednesday afternoon. Docs on the Sheikh Zayed Medical Faculty Hospital (SZMCH) stated the household had taken the step in opposition to their recommendation.
Gadani had suffered serious gunshot wounds in an assault by unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants close to Korai Goth, 12 kilometres from Mirpur Mathelo, on Tuesday, when he was going to the city on his two-wheeler. Police had introduced Gadani to Mirpur Mathelo hospital the place docs offered him emergency medical support and instantly despatched him to Rahim Yar Khan for surgical procedure.
On Wednesday, philanthropist Saad Edhi prolonged assist to the journalist’s household to shift Gadani to Karachi by way of Edhi air ambulance. SZMCH’s deputy medical superintendent Rana Ilyas Ahmed stated that no official from the governments of Punjab or Sindh contacted the hospital administration with regard to the affected person.
Sources stated the docs had tried to dissuade the journalist’s household from shifting him to Karachi in such a precarious situation however they [family] ignored their recommendation. Gadani was taken to Aga Khan Hospital instantly after touchdown in Karachi as a result of his situation had began deteriorating in Rahim Yar Khan, stated the sources.
Protest at SSP workplace
A lot of journalists and Gadani’s members of the family and supporters, together with members of nationalist events and social and rights activists, staged a sit-in in entrance of SSP’s workplace in Mirpur Mathelo to protest in opposition to the assault on the journalist.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty third, 2024