Staff Reporter
A neonate, placed on a ventilator, at the intensive care unit (ICU), National Institute of Child Health (NICH) passed away Thursday of severe suffocation consequent to sudden outbreak of fire in the section.
A senior NICH official confirming the incident expressed his deep sorrow and shared sympathy with the bereaved family.
According to him, an enquiry is being initiated to ascertain the exact cause which may also be made public if allowed under rules and regulations.
NICH is one of the three major tertiary care facilities in Karachi that as per orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, are currently in process of being placed again under the control of federal government.
Prior to the 18th amendment in the country’s constitution (2010) NICH, Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) were managed by federal ministry of health.
It was only in recent past that unexplained instances of blaze were also registered in the other two hospitals with investigations still in process.
Meanwhile, A woman who was declared dead while still being alive at Karachi’s Abbasi Shaheed Hospital died early Thursday.
Doctor Salma Kausar said the woman, identified as Rasheeda Bibi, 50, was brought back to the medical facility after she came to life but died this morning at 5:15 am. She said the hospital will issue her death certificate in a little while.
The doctors at the hospital had issued a formal death certificate of the woman yesterday and then her body was shifted to the cold storage for remaining rituals before her burial.
The woman was being bathed before her burial according to Islamic burial traditions when what was considered a corpse came back to life.
Taken aback, the women designated with bathing Rasheeda Bibi’s corpse come running out of the mortuary.
50-year-old Rasheeda Bibi was suffering from paralysis for the past one and a half year. The family and loved ones after regaining their mental faculties shifted Rasheeda Bibi back to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
