QUETTA: A private hospital deprived an employee of the Balochistan Assembly of his healthy kidney after he was admitted to the hospital for treatment of stone in his other kidney.

Imran Masieh was admitted to the hospital for removal of a stone in his kidney, but a few days after the operation his health started deteriorating and his family took him to Karachi for the checkup. During the check-up doctors found that Masieh had only one kidney and it was also not working.

Talking to the media on Friday, Mr Masieh said he had a kidney stone issue and underwent a surgery at a private hospital on Airport Road, Quetta, and after the operation the management of the hospital continued to perform dialysis at its own expense. “But since my condition continued to deteriorate, I had to go to Karachi for medical checkup,” he said.

Masieh came to know about the surgeon’s blunder in Karachi hospital

“In Karachi the doctors told me that I have only one kidney and moreover it is not working,” he said.

“I was deprived of my kidney during the operation by the private hospital doctors,” he alleged.

Meanwhile, the president of Balochistan Assembly Employees’ Association, Zafar Rind, has condemned the removal of Masieh’s kidney by doctors of the private hospital and called for registration of an FIR against the hospital management in this regard.

Police were, however, reluctant to lodge the FIR on the ground that there had been a “delay of several days” in the lodging of the FIR.

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2021