LAHORE: A man was reportedly found dead under mysterious circumstances in the washroom of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here on Wednesday.

Identified as Kashif Ali (37), the deceased was a resident of Gulshan-i-Ravi and the police shifted his body to the city morgue for autopsy.

A police official said the body seems to be two-day old and the investigations have been launched to find out the reason for his death.

He said a senior doctor from the anaesthesia department noticed some foul smell coming out of the washroom when he was taking a round of some sections of the hospital.

He immediately alerted the admin section which dispatched guards who opened the door and found the body.

The police later reached the spot, launched investigation and identified the man through some documents recovered from his clothes.

The hospital record showed no entry of the man in the official slips of the emergency ward or any other department.

The Punjab health secretary took notice of the incident and formed a four-member committee to probe the incident as to how the man reached there if he was neither a patient nor an attendant. He also directed the committee to find out the negligence of the hospital staff, if any, and submit a report at the earliest.

Published in Dawn, December 29th, 2022