HYDERABAD, Dec 14: Police moved a doctor from the Red Crescent Cardiac Hospital in Latifabad on Wednesday over fears of violent reaction by relatives of a patient who died during angioplasty.

The SHO of Hussainabad police station, Saghir Sangi, said that no FIR was being lodged against the doctor because it was a natural death. However, Dr Shafiq Ahmed had been shifted to ensure he was not roughed up by family members of late Syed Mehmood Zaidi.

He said that Akbar Durrani, a close acquaintance of late Mehmood’s family, had talked to Shahid Ali Zaidi, brother of the deceased, to pacify his anger.

Mr Mehmood was brought to the hospital on Tuesday morning with complains of pain in the chest and Dr Ahmed advised angiography to be carried out on Wednesday.

Mr Shahid said that when he and his brother’s son left for home to bring money his brother was taken to the operation theatre for angiography.

“When we arrived we were told the patient was having pain on the chest and doctors were trying to help him. But, actually my brother had expired by then and doctors were concealing it from us,” said Shahid.

He said that Dr Ahmed had pressurised his brother’s wife to give her consent for the procedure on ground that he (Dr Ahmed) would visit the hospital after a week and would not be available. “So she gave her consent,” he said.

The hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Fazlur Rehman said that Dr Ahmed was director of the hospital and also chief cardiologist at a private hospital in Karachi.

He visits the Red Crescent Hospital every week from Monday to Thursday.

“The procedure on the patient was carried out and he was in recovery room in an operation theatre waiting for his angioplasty for which the family had given their consent. But before it was performed he suffered another cardiac arrest and died,” Dr Fazl said.

The family’ acquaintance Mr Durrani said the patient died a natural death and the doctor tried his best to save him.

He said that he had tried to pacify Shahid and the matter had been settled.