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Jinnah Medical Centre Karachi Nurse dies due to alleged negligence of doctors

Karachi: Rubina Habib would have never imagined that her death would be caused by something that she knew how to do best for the last nine years of her life. Rubina was a nurse at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).

She was a hardworking nurse and did all that she could to make her patients comfortable during the time they were admitted to the hospital. No matter how many deaths she had seen in her life as a nurse, she would have not believed that she would also suffer the fate of her patients, lying on the same bed as they do, during the last hours of her life.

Sadly, she did not die a natural death, after all a natural death at 28 is highly unlikely to begin with, but in fact she died due to the negligence of the very people she was working with.

Rubina had everything going for her she had a stable job and was on a maternity leave for the past two months. For understandable reasons she was to deliver her baby at the JPMC Maternity Ward.

However, fate had other plans for her as she died in the ward at around 2:00 am on Friday morning. The news spread like wild fire and the nurses left their wards to protest against the negligence. The protest affected the routine of Pakistan's largest state-run hospital and several patients admitted in the hospital suffered because of the protest. As a part of the protest, nurses blocked the main road outside JPMC, making it difficult for people to access the four major hospitals located on that road, including JPMC, National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (NICVD), National Institute of Child Health (NICH) and the Kidney Centre.

When the nurses showed no signs of backing out of the protest, the JPMC administration called the members of the Pakistan Nursing Council (PNC) but the council refused to respond to the hospital until they took action against the doctors that were allegedly involved in the negligence. Following the PNC's reply the hospital's administration suspended six doctors, two nurses and three postgraduates including Dr Reena, Dr Humera, Dr Devi Kumari, Dr Talat and Dr Mehnaz. The hospital management issued a press statement signed by JPMC Acting Director Professor Ghulam Mehboob, which stated that five doctors have been suspended and an enquiry has been ordered. However, not a single name was mentioned in the statement. However on contact a senior member of the hospital management, on the conditions of anonymity, said that a six-member committee comprising some senior members of the hospital management, members of the PNC and doctors has been created which would issue a report within the next 24 hours after which further action would be taken on the basis of the findings of the report.

The nurses were against the formation of an enquiry committee, terming it to be a delay tactic. A senior member of the PNC said that the hospital management would never remove the staff involved in the negligence and said that instead of the proper course of action the hospital's management would announce a meager amount to compensate for Rubina's life. "We are ready to go to court to get justice for Rubina," said Nursing Superintendent Irshad Abbasi.

He added that the issue just does not end at Rubina's case as everyone who will be treated by the negligent doctors and staff will be at risk. Rubina body was taken to her residence at Saeedabad and a large number of nurses attended her funeral. Daily times