City Reporter
The district administration on Friday failed to re-open Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) three days after hundreds of lawyers stormed the hospital in Lahore which left at least three people dead.
The medical services at all departments of the cardiac hospital in the provincial capital remained suspended for the third consecutive day and the hapless heart patients were left to suffer without treatment.
Around 12000 heart patients have suffered as the 35 patients couldn’t undergo bypass, while the Angioplasty and Angiography of 250 patients have also been postponed as the doctors and paramedics stayed away from their duties and demanded protection to them at their workplaces.
The heart patients also couldn’t undergo diagnostic tests owing to closure of medical services at all departments.
On the other hand, the work to restore the building and machines is underway, while the medicine counter at the OPD has been restored and the provision of medicines to already admitted patients has also been started in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
All the medical tests and operations were postponed while work at emergency ward and Out-Patient Department (OPD) was also stopped. The critical patients at the PIC were shifted to other hospitals.
