KARACHI, April 6: Bail of two doctors of the Liaquat National Hospital was confirmed in the sum of Rs200,000 each against whom the allegation was that their failure to provide first aid to a doctor had resulted in his death.

The bail was confirmed after Justice Wahid Bux Brohi directed the Sessions Judge East to send the progress report of the case by April 9.

On the last date of hearing, bail of Surgeon Moeezuddin and Dr Haider Zaidi, LNH, was not confirmed though Mr Azizullah Shaikh and Mahmood Alam Rizvi had argued the case in detail, contending that no case under section 319 PPC is made out against the applicants.

The lawyers filed an application before the Sindh High Court. Justice Wahid Bux Brohi, asked for the maintainability of bail application as interim bail was already granted to the applicants. Justice Brohi directed the district Sessions Judge, East, to send the progress report of the case till 9-4-2002.

In the sessions court, both the lawyers contended that the deceased doctor remained in the LNH for only 25 minutes and during that period all emergency medicines and treatments were provided to him, the lawyers had contended.

They also alleged that the deceased doctor misbehaved with the MLO and other staff and insisted that he was affiliated with the Agha Khan University Hospital and hospital of San Francisco US. They argued that even then, with the assistance of lady doctor the applicant, Haider Zaidi, examined his wound and found no blood from the wound of bullet injury on the lower stomach. He was well-oriented but non-cooperative.

In the meantime, they submitted, that some Surgeon Mehtab Mehar contacted on telephone and talked to brother of the deceased. Thereafter, instead of AKUH the complainant took the deceased to National Medical Centre in Defence where his operation was conducted and he died there.

It was their contention that the case should have been registered where he died. No such incident took place at the LNH and the FIR is result of a conspiracy against the LNH, the counsel argued. Investigating officer stated that Dr. Moeez was not being implicated in the challan.