THATTA, Sept 9: An inquiry has been initiated against the administration of two Taluka hospitals and a rural health centre in Sujawal sub-division for not conducting post-mortem of the bodies of two dacoits, who were shot dead in a police encounter, resulting in their partial decomposition, on Monday.

The EDO, health, Thatta, Dr Ghulam Haider Arain, told this correspondent that the district officer-cum-inquiry officer, Hafizur Rehman Memon, has issued explanation calls to the medical superintendent, Taluka hospital Sujawal, Naseem Ismail Umrani, the medical superintendent, Taluka hospital Mirpur Bathoro, Abdul Aziz Tehrani, and the medical superintendent, rural health centre, Daro, Dr Azhar Abbasi, and invited the general public as well to record their statements.

Sources in the health department revealed that the provincial minister for health, Major (retd) Ahsanul Haq, has taken serious notice of the doctors on duty at the Taluka hospital Sujawal, Mirpur Bathoro, and the rural health centre Daro, who did not carry out an autopsy of the bodies of the two dacoits. The bodies were sent from one hospital to another as a result of which 30 hours passed during which they partially decomposed.

The medical superintendent, Taluka hospital Sujawal, said his hospital did not have any cold storage facilities.

It may be recalled that the Thatta and Hyderabad police had killed two dacoits in an ‘encounter’ a few days back. One of them had been identified as Amin Mallah.

One dies in accident: A 30-year-old man, Nazir Khaskheli, was crushed to death while pushing a bus to get it started on the National Highway on Monday.

The deceased was pushing the bus, which had stopped due to some fault, which started with a jerk but Nazir slipped under its rear wheel and died.

In another accident, three women — Seema, Farida and Hawa — all residents of Ram Swami, Karachi, were injured as their coaster collided with a bus near the Keenjhar Lake.