MULTAN: A female patient was allegedly gang raped at a hospital in Burewala by staffers on Wednesday night.

According to media reports, the victim reached at the hospital to visit a doctor and was asked to wait as no doctor was available at the time.

Later she was injected with intoxicating drugs before being reportedly gang raped by five employees of the hospital.

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The alleged rapists fled away when her husband reached the hospital where her condition had begun to deteriorate.

Subsequently, a case was registered in this regard at the Model Town police station in Burewala.

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Police began conducting raids to carry out arrests but have remained unsuccessful so far.

Abdul Rehman, husband of the victim, said Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif should ensure the arrest of culprits and bring them to justice.

Rehman said he had left his wife at the hospital to bring his children from home and by the time he returned, she had been subjected to rape.

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