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CJP Expresses Resentment Over Tharparker Report

Karachi (March 31, 2018): Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday has expressed resentment over secretary health’s report regarding continuous deaths of infants in Tharparkar.

According to the details, Chief Justice (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday lashed out at Sindh Health Secretary Fazlullah Pechuho for failing to take responsibility for children’s deaths in Tharparkar.

A three-member Supreme Court bench, comprising Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and headed by the chief justice, was hearing a suo motu case regarding the death of children in Thar, who died from malnutrition and measles. He admonished Pechuho, who submitted a report prepared by government doctors to the court, for ridding himself of all responsibility by saying that children die because they are underweight.

During a hearing at Supreme Court (SC) Karachi registry, CJP said that he is feeling ashamed after seeing the video of Larkana Hospital. We have to interfere in the executives’ working, he added.“The report makes it look like you don’t have any responsibility at all,” Justice Nisar said at the SC Karachi registry, suggesting that Pechuho “offer his services to another department”.

Sindh health secretary then told the court that 50 per cent of the deaths occurred due to pneumonia and diarrhea. He also admitted that doctors did not want to work in the region.

He said that children are losing their lives due to non-availability of timely medical treatment. He also remarked that whose responsibility is to provide medicines to the victims.

Meanwhile, health secretary told the court that incinerators are being installed at government hospitals on the orders of CJP.

Addressing Senator Raza Rabbani, who appeared before the court today, the chief justice said that the judiciary did not want to interfere in executive matters but is “compelled” to do so due to the poor state of affairs.Referring to a video clip that showed the poor state of a hospital in Larkana, the ruling PPP’s stronghold, the CJP said that he felt “ashamed” and wanted to visit the city to oversee the state of affairs there. He then suggested Senator Rabbani watch that video as well.

The CJP expressed concern over the “numerous health problems in Sindh” and said that hospitals hand over the bodies of children to parents who are left with nothing but grief.

Sindh Advocate General Barrister Zameer Hussain Ghumro’s claim that the government had built an “excellent hospital” in Mithi and distributed free wheat in Thar was dismissed by Justice Shah who said that the wheat was “lost in corruption”.

After a recess, the court rejected the report submitted by Pechuho and ordered the government to form a committee comprising “neutral doctors” working in Aga Khan Hospital or other hospitals of similar stature.

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