August 07, 2008	Thursday	Sha’aban 4, 1429

HYDERABAD, Aug 6: A severely tortured woman brought to the Bhitai hospital, Latifabad, is in critical condition and in desperate need of proper treatment which is not being given to her at the hospital.

Pakistan Human Rights Development Organisation’s representatives revealed this at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday.

The rights’ body has called on the government to take action against the management and doctors of the hospital for not providing proper treatment to the torture victim. Naheed, daughter of Qasim, resident of Latifabad was severely tortured by her husband.

Mumtaz Ahmed Shaikh and other representatives of the rights group said that due to the inhuman torture on Naheed by her husband Aas Mohammad, son of Ismail in Tando Adam, she was shifted to Bhitai hospital by her father some 35 days ago.

However, the doctors at the hospital did not provide any treatment to the poor woman who was still lying there in the surgical ward of the hospital with her wounds open, they said.

They demanded that an murder attempt case be registered against her husband.

They said that the office-bearers of the organisation visited the woman on the night of August 4 but no doctor was present in the entire hospital while the mother of the patient was crying for help.

The hospital management had not bothered to shift her to some other bigger hospital for proper treatment, they said.

They said that such an inhuman attitude could not be tolerated and demanded a strict action against the hospital.

They also demanded that Naheed should immediately be shifted to some good hospital in Karachi for proper treatment on behalf of the government.

They warned that if the government failed to take action in the matter, the members of the organisation would stage protest sit-ins outside all the press clubs of the country.