HYDERABAD, June 27: After a meeting with doctors and the administration of the Civil Hospital Hyderabad on Wednesday, the district administration has decided to seek assistance from Rangers for security of doctors by establishing their picket in the hospital. An official of Rangers, however, said that they couldn’t establish picket in hospital unless a permission is granted by their high command.

Deputy Commissioner Agha Shahnawaz told Dawn on Wednesday  Rangers need a formal permission from their DG to set up picket. “We will be writing letter to home secretary in this regard”, he said.

The MS needs to improve performance of around 150 security personnel, hired by hospital administration, he added.

The meeting was attended by SSP Haseeb Baig, SP headquarters Amjad Sheikh, DC Agha Shahnawaz, Pakistan Medical Association office-bearers Dr.Hadi Bux Jatoi, Dr. Wasim Sheikh, Young Doctors Association (YDA) president Dr.Murad Qureshi, paramedics and others. It also decided to get traffic police constables posted in hospitals to regulate traffic through separate entry and exit points.

The meeting was follow-up of a meeting held earlier following recent manhandling of Dr.Atta Memon in the casualty ward. A strong tendency is seen among patients’ attendants who beat doctors regardless of the fact whether they are responsible for any mismanagement or not.

YDA’s Dr.Murad Qureshi spoke a length and said that doctors fall prey to hooliganism of outsiders who had been occupying hospital’s nearby hostel. These outsiders are drunk and beat doctors and attendants. Interference by political activists had created a mess in hospital. He even sought arms license for doctors “They carry weapons too”, he later told Dawn after the meeting.

He said that DC promised to provide ten license to doctors for their own security. They wee assured that Rangers personnel would be deployed in 15 days and hooligans would be ejected from hostel’s rooms.

Dr. Hadi Bux Jatoi said he told MS Dr.Kazim Shah to improve his management too as it was one of the reasons of unrest in the hospital.

Hostel needed to be vacated because hardly a few rooms were with hospital administration and the remaining are with outsiders. “We informed administration that we don’t want to create a Punjab like situation so management should be improved and doctors’ security should be ensured,” he said.

PTI: All bodies of Sindh of the Pakistan Tehreeke Insaf (PTI) would stand dissolved on June 30 under directives of the PTI chairman and new office-bearers would be elected through votes.

This was stated by the senior vice-president central of Sindh region of the Pakistan Tehreeke Insaf, Imran Alvi advocate and joint secretary Sindh Amanaullah Musakhail on Wednesday.