Punjab govt forms a two-member body to probe coronavirus’ patient death.

LAHORE: Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmeen Rashid on Friday visited Mayo Hospital Lahore to probe the death of a coronavirus patient supposedly due to the non-provision of the ventilator.

The health minister said that she had formed a two-member commission to be managed by senior savants to probe into the matter, and stringent performance would be taken if doctors’ negligence is proved.

CEO Mayo Hospital Professor Asad Aslam said the coronavirus patient was tied with ropes after he tried to escape from the hospital ward.

However, sources privy to the details, claimed that he was tied with ropes after he required to shift him on a ventilator due to his deteriorating health condition.

Alternatively of shifting him on the ventilator, two ward boys tied him with a rope, they said, adding that the patient was found dead inside the ward’s bathroom and his body was retrieved after the staffers broke into it after waiting for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, Professor Asad Aslam said that the patient talked of supernatural forces, and he was tied with ropes to avoid his escape. “His medical condition did not need him to be put on a ventilator,” he said.

It is pertinent to mention here that the death toll in the country from COVID-19 soared to 10 after Punjab published its fourth coronavirus death on Friday.

According to the Punjab Health Department, a 70-year-old coronavirus patient died in Lahore’s Mayo Hospital here on Friday. He was a resident of Sheikhupura.

This is the fourth coronavirus death in Punjab and second in Lahore.

It must be noted that there are 1,235 proved coronavirus cases in Pakistan, according to the latest news released by the National Command and Control Center on coronavirus on Friday.

The national dashboard, maintained by the federal ministry of health, reported that Sindh province has been affected more due to the virus, where the number of cases stands at 429, Punjab 408, Balochistan 131, KP 147, Gilgit-Baltistan, 91, Islamabad 27 and two cases were reported in Azad Kashmir.