HYDERABAD, Aug 5: Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed on Tuesday ordered a probe into the affairs of the Hyderabad Civil Hospital and the hospital’s medical superintendent Dr. Manzoor Memon demanded that the government remove the minister whom he accused of using abusive language against him.

The minister told journalists after paying a brief visit to the hospital’s casualty ward and intensive care unit (ICU) that he was ordering an inquiry against the hospital’s management into complaints of mismanagement.

The MS alleged that the minister used abusive language when he asked him and his entourage not to enter the ward with shoes on. “He even waived a fist at me,” the MS charged.

The minister said talked to media amid slogans of Jeay Bhutto while the MS, refused to sit with him during his press conference. PPP activists crowded the conference room and raised slogans of Zinda hay Bibi Zinda hay.

The minister said the MS was non-cooperative and unfriendly and accused him of trying to hide corruption. “The MS prevented patients from meeting me because they had complaints against his administration,” he said.

He denied hurling abuses at the MS and disagreed with a questioner that the incident would have any bearing on MQM-PPP coalition.

The minister, who was accompanied by DG health services Sindh, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Memon and MQM’s zonal committee members, MNAs and MPAs, later left for the office of DG health.

He was scheduled to attend a seminar in Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) but he did not attend it.

The MS told journalists after the minister’s departure that “I not only condemn it (the minister’s attitude) but also ask the Sindh government to take action against him. Provincial government should remove such ministers who hurl abuses at officials,” he said.

He alleged that the minister had tried to get him removed from the post in collusion with former MS’s of the hospital. He was ready to face any inquiry by any department for any financial malpractices, he said.