TOBA TEK SINGH: The Gojra Saddar police on Sunday registered a case against a quack (and his accomplices) for allegedly giving wrong injection to a 10-year-old girl who died soon afterwards at Bobak Chowk.

According to the FIR lodged on the complaint of Muhammad Sarwar, a resident of Chak 358-JB, against quack Dr Muhammad Ashraf and his accomplices Mahboob, Faisal, Adil and Shan, he (Sarwar) brought his ailing daughter Muqaddas Bibi for treatment to the clinic of Ashraf who admitted her and administered an injection as a result of which she became unconscious.

The suspect, he said, asked him to take his daughter to the Gojra THQ hospital where doctors referred her to Faisalabad’s Allied Hospital but she died on the way. He said he and his relatives staged a protest demonstration and the quack and his four accomplices opened fired on them.

Police claimed that they were conducting raids to arrest the quack and his accomplices.

ACCIDENTS: A woman died while her son was injured when a trailer hit their motorcycle at Gojra on Sunday.

Rescue 1122 reported that Michael Masih and his mother Perveen Rani, residents of Nawan Lahore’s Chak 333-JB, Passianwala, were on Gojra-Faisalabad bypass road on their way to Samundri when the motorcycle collided with a motorcycle-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction. As they fell on the road, they were run over by a trailer.

They were being shifted to Gojra’s THQ hospital when Perveen Rani succumbed to her wounds.

In another accident, a van and a mini-truck collided head-on near Wahgi canal bridge on Kamalia-Jakhar Road as a result of which nine van passengers -- all belonging to Basti Mumtazabad (Vehari) -- were injured.

A team of the Rescue 1122 provided first-aid to four of them and allowed them to continue journey while others were admitted to Kamalia’s THQ hospital. They were identified as Shahnaz Bibi, 50, Zakir Hussain, 48, Zawar Hussain, 55, Haq Nawaz, 40, and Sharif Elahi, 60.

Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2020