Patients die as hundreds of lawyers storm hospital to settle score with doctors in Lahore
Lahore: At least five critically ill patients died on 11th December after hundreds of lawyers stormed and ransacked a hospital in the city to settle an old score with doctors, officials said.
A large number of lawyers forced their entry into Lahore's Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) to avenge what they said was an assault by doctors on a fellow advocate two week ago. As the rowdy lawyers entered the hospital the doctors and paramedical staff ran for their lives leaving the patients unattended. Even those doctors who were in the middle of carrying out operations fled, officials said.
The lawyers beat some of the fleeing doctors and paramedics and also journalists covering the incident. A lady doctor and a female reporter were among the injured. The lawyers also set a police van on fire. The policemen deployed at the hospital too ran for their lives, eyewitnesses said. They also smashed door and windows, damaged a number of cars parked at the health facility and broke cameras of some journalists, they added. Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hasan Chohan, who was also manhandled by lawyers, told reporters that at least five patients in critical condition lost their lives because of the "attack" of some 4,000 lawyers on the hospital.
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