RAWALPINDI, Oct 9: A patient who went to the Rawalpindi General Hospital (RGH) seeking treatment for migraine was given a bloody nose instead.

Patient Adeel Ahmed alleged to Dawn that for some strange reason the doctor who attended to him got furious at his request for medicine from the Zakat Fund and started beating him.

“Three other doctors joined him in kicking and punching me mercilessly,” the well-built patient in his mid 30s claimed.

Other patients waiting for their turn rescued him, but not before his nose bone was broken by the attackers, he said.

Profusely bleeding Adeel told Dawn that he had been visiting the hospital often.

“Instead of taking pity on me, and giving me medicine from the Zakat Fund, they gave me a thrashing,” he said with tears in his eyes. After he was thrown out of the hospital ward, he said he called his brothers who took him to the Waris Khan police station and lodged a complaint.

The police brought him back to the hospital for medico-legal procedures and a doctor advised him an X-ray as his nose appeared fractured.

When asked for comments, the Medical Superintendent of RGH, Dr Habib Ahmed Khan, said he was unaware of the incident.

However, his deputy, Dr Najeeb Pasha, confirmed the incident saying a few medical officers had visited him to complain about a patient who, they said, had insulted them.

Dr Pasha said he went out to look for the man but he had disappeared.