KARACHI: Hospitals directed to provide medical help
KARACHI, Aug 17: The Sindh home department has once again directed all government and private sector hospitals all over the province to provide immediate medical aid in cases of accidents without waiting for the arrival of the police and registration of FIR.
The directives have been issued through circulating a notification of December 1997 which was issued after adding Rule 25.19-A in the Police Rules 1934.
Rule 25.19-A envisages that first aid shall be rendered immediately to the patients injured in accidents by the doctors on duty in the hospitals without waiting for police and registration of FIR and such injured persons shall be left unattended.
The fresh directives were issued on the request of the FPCCI’s standing committee on law and order which took up the matter during a meeting with home secretary Sindh, Brig Mukhtar Ahmed, on August 6, 2002. — PPI/APP
