KARACHI, March 16: After undergoing six months of treatment, epilepsy patient Aariz Ali Shaikh, died at the Aga Khan University Hospital in the early hours of Friday. His aggrieved father, Khurshid Ali Shaikh said Aariz, 15, was his only son. He was buried after Friday prayers at Azizabad graveyard. He said he still maintained that his son walked into the hospital and turned into a complicated case due to negligence of the hospital. He added that he and his family would sue the hospital.

The family, according to Mr Khurshid, visited Aariz on Thursday and was happy to see him breathing naturally. The father said around midnight he was called by the hospital to come. He said his son breathed his last before them.

He demanded that a medical board, constituted by the health department, should furnish its report without any delay.

Sindh Health Secretary Noushad Shaikh said the medical board had not submitted the report to him till Friday.

The AKU hospital spokesperson said Aariz in an acute epileptic state was admitted in September 2006, directly to the ICU through AKUH Emergency. For nearly six months he was kept alive on a ventilator. The official said it was disappointing that the hospital’s compassion had been responded with distorted facts and false allegations.