KOHAT, March 3: A patient on Saturday died at the divisional headquarters hospital due to the doctors’ alleged negligence.

Family of Wajid Khan, a resident of Togh Bala, told Dawn that they admitted the 24-year-old to the hospital’s medical ward on the advice of a doctor, who also prescribed him some medicines.

They said no doctor later showed up causing the patient’s condition to deteriorate so much that he died within two days of admission. Blaming the hospital’s doctors and administration for the death, the family later staged a protest on the premises and refused to take away the body until the culpable persons weren’t punished.

They later approached the KDA police station for registration of a case against the hospital’s administration and doctors and demanded their early arrest.

Police registered the case against doctors, who were on duty during the deceased’s stay at the hospital.

A source at the hospital said the youngster’s condition worsened Friday night prompting his shifting to the emergency unit where he breathed his last shortly thereafter. He claimed the deceased had serious infection in lungs but doctors gave him anti-tuberculosis medicines instead of antibiotics that might have led to his death.

Also in the day, the Kohat Qaumi Tehrik opposed the shifting of the girls’ vocational training institute from Kohat city to its outskirts and demanded cancellation of the evacuation notice issued to its students.

KQT president Ameer Khan Afridi accompanied by local elders visited the institute and expressed solidarity with students.

Mr Afridi criticised the district administration for building commercial plazas by demolishing schools and libraries.

He said earlier, a plaza was built at the site of historical Jinnah Library and another at the site of the old prison.

The KQT president said his organisation stood by students of the institute until the administration withdraws its shifting order.

He alleged that the district administration was closing its eyes to rampant corruption in Kohat Development Authority and Tehsil Municipal Administration, and dilapidated condition of city roads, health centres and educational institutions.

Mr Afridi said the administration’s bad governance was evident from the fact that three fruit and vegetable markets existed in the city but businessmen were unwilling to go to the new government market situated miles away from the city.