Two prisoners die in hospital

Published December 13, 2002

RAWALPINDI, Dec 12: Two jail inmates including a condemned prisoner died at the District Headquarters Hospital, doctors said on Thursday.

Saifur Rehman, a condemned prisoner, was brought to the hospital from Adiala Jail in a moribund state, doctors said. He was suffering from multiple problems of Septicaemia, dehydration and herpes. Doctors said they had insufficient details about the disease history of the patient, but it seemed he had been neglected by the jail authorities.

He could be a case of mismanagement of fever, said a doctor who attended the patient during his brief stay at the hospital. “We nevertheless tried our best to save his life,” he added.

The jail authorities, he said, had sent him to the hospital without completing the formalities.

Bedmes, alias Rahimi, a Nigerian prisoner, also expired at the hospital, doctors said. He was suffering from hepatitis.

The prisoner was serving a four-year sentence in a narcotics smuggling case under Section 9-C. He had been suffering from this problem for a couple of years.

Last month another Nigerian prisoner, Papa, had also died. He was HIV positive and the doctors had claimed that negligence of the jail authorities aggravated his condition.

Meanwhile, a prisoner Ashraf, having intestinal bleeding is reportedly in a serious condition.

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