Court orders police to register FIR against 3 KTH doctors

PESHAWAR: A local court on Saturday ordered the police to register the first information report (FIR) against three doctors of the Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, for negligence and damage to the eye of a patient recently.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Aftab Iqbal issued a four-page short order on the 22-A application filed by Ameer Zada through his lawyer Khalid Anwar Afridi for legal action and directed the police to lodge a case against the KTH doctors.

The judge said that negligence on the part of doctors namely Associate Prof Dr Bakht Samar, Dr Zaman Shah and Dr Naeem Khan had been proved following the arguments of the lawyer representing the complainant.

The court while accepting the 22-A application observed that the replies of respondents also supported the allegations of the complainant about negligence and improper treatment.

Earlier, the lawyer informed the court that his client Ameer Zada was admitted to the hospital for eye treatment with Associate Prof Dr Bakht Samar, Dr Zaman Shah and Dr Naeem Khan at the KTH.

During the course of treatment, all medical tests of the patient were conducted and later sent to the operation theater for surgery but his planned surgery was stopped at the eleventh hour.

The doctors took the stance that his client had a corona. However, he pleaded the patient conducted a test for corona in a private laboratory, which proved negative.

He argued the anesthesia administered to the patient by the doctors for surgery caused a blood clot in his eye and resultantly he lost his eye.

The lawyer said that the patient then lodged a complaint with hospital administration and the negligence on part of doctors proved. However, he pleaded

that the police refused to register an FIR against the doctors.

He maintained that later his client filed a case at a lower court for registration of an FIR against the doctors, which was allowed accordingly.

The doctors, he argued, challenged the lower verdict in the Peshawar High Court through a writ petition. However, he said the PHC reverted the case to the lower court.

Following the case, the station house officer of the relevant police station recorded the statements of doctors but those were not produced in the court.